Aspidium.] filices. 455 



6. A. ciliatum, Wall. Catal.n. 351. Steins short, ascemling. . Fronds 

 simply pinnate, i to 1 ft. high, with a few short brown scales on the stipes, 

 and more or less hispid or downy especially on the rhachis and principal veins. 

 Pinnae numerous, sessile, linear-lanceolate, acuminate or obtuse, regularly 

 pinnatifid, the longer ones 1 to 2 in. long, passing into a pinnatifid apex, and 

 the lowest 1 or 2 paii- much shorter ; the lobes ovate-falcate, reaching about 

 halfway to the midrib. Veins pinnate, those of adjoining lobes free. Son 

 few to each lobe, usually near the midrib. Indusium remform or sometimes 

 peltate, ciliate. — Lastrea ciliata. Hook, in Kew Joum. Bot. ix. 338. 



Common in ravines, Bovmian ; in a ravine near the top of Mount Gough, WilforA. In 

 the Indian Peninsula and in Khasia. Nearly allied to and. perhaps a variety of the Javanese 

 A. calcaratum, Blume, but that appears always to have much longer, narrower, and more 

 acute lobes to the pinnae. 



1. A.,Tb.elypteriSj Sw.; WiUd.Spec.\. 24:9. Khizome creeping. Fronds 

 ■| to 3 ft. high, slender, glabrous or slightly pubescent, simply pinnate, with- 

 out scales to the stipes. Pinnse numerous, sessile, lanceolate or linear-oblong, 

 deeply pinnatifid, the longest 1 J in. to Sj long, passing into the pinnatifid apex, 

 the lowest pair smaller. Lobes numerous, usually oblong and obtuse. Veins 

 pinnate, those of adjoining lobes free. Sori in 3 rows not far from the margin 

 of the lobes, often covering the whole surface when old. Indusium usually 

 reniform but soon disappearing. — Lastrea ^raafe«ce»s,-Hook. in Kew Joum. 

 Bot. ix. 338. 



Hongkong, Harland; on the banks of a ditch at Pockfoolan, Wilford. Widely distributed 

 over Europe, temperate Asia, and N. America ; also in northern India and in Java and New 

 Zealand, if the A. graeilescens, Blume, and A. squarmlosum, Kaulf., be really specifically 

 identical, as they appear to be. 



8. A. falcilobum. Hook. Veiy near the last, but taUerand firmer, the 

 rhachis much more pubescent and often the pinnse also ; the pinnse falcate, 

 more acuminate, attaining 4 in. in length, and their lobes lanceolate-falcate 

 and acute. — Lastrea falciloba. Hook, in Kew Joum. Bot. ix. 338. 



Hongkong, Harland. Also in Eastern Bengal. 



9. A. moUe, 8w. ; Willd. Spec. v. 246. Eliizome horizontal or shortly 

 creeping Fronds 1 to 2 or sometimes 3 feet high, simply pinnate, more or 

 less pubescent, and rather slender, usuaUy of a Hght green. Pmnae lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, the longest 2 to 4 in. long, pinnatifid, truncate at the base ; 

 lobes ovate or oblong, obtuse, sometimes very short, sometimes reachmg haU- 

 wav to the midiib, the lowest inner one often longer. Vems pmnate, the 

 lowest of adjoining lobes anastomosing. Sori distmct, oidy near the midrib 

 or in 2 rows but not close to the margin. Indusium remforni> usuaUy eiliate 

 and soon disappearing.-iV.i.Ar«rfi«»» r^olle, Schott; Hook, m Kew Joum. 



Bot. ix. 340. . • • ,v. w 



Pnmmon in ravines Hinds and others. Abundant in most tropical countnes m the New 

 and the Old WoTiand everywhere variable in size, pubescence, and arrangement of the eon. 



Var. ^<^^r«- Seldom above l^ft^ "J^/^/.f- .Zt l^ tdCX^y^S 

 Thrfn thr^mt^Siet tlelj^/om; frLd longJ^^^^^^^^^^ 



*' togkong, Cl^npion, Harland, Hanoe ; among rocks, in damp situations, at little Hong- 

 kong, Wilford. 



