216 38. ASPLENIUM, §§ EUASPLEHIUM. 



flabellate segm., 1-2 in. br., sharply toothed on the outer edge ; texture coriaceous ; 

 rachis firm, grey, naked ; veins subflabellate ; sori oblong, usually one only to a 

 segm.— A. scandicinum, H]c. Sp. 3.p. 183. t. 204, non Kaulf, 



Hab. Brazil and Ecuador. 



131. A. fragrans, Swartz ; St. tufted, 4-8 in. L, firm, naked, erect, brownish 

 below ; fr. 0-9 in. 1., 8-4 in. br., subdeltoid, tripinnate, with numerous close- 

 placed deltoid pirnim on each side, the lowest 3 in. 1., H in- br. ; pinnl. lan- 

 ceolate-deltoid ; segm. subspathulate, 1 lin. br., dentate round the outer edge ; 



' texture subcoriaceous ; rachis firm, naked ; veins fine, obscure, one in each tooth 

 of the segm. ; sori copious, at last often covering the whole under surface of the 



segm ft A. fomicviaceMm, H. B. K.. ; ult. segm. narrowly linear. — Hk. Sp. 3. 



p. 181, 



Hab. Tropical America, from Mexico and the West Indies to Peru and Brazil.— The 

 two varieties seem to be quite connected by gradual intermediate gradations. I now 

 look upon these as more compound forms of awilwm. 



132. A. Saulii, Hooker; st. tufted, 3-4 in. 1., firm, erect, greenish, nearly 

 naked ; fr. 4-5 in. 1., 3 in. br., ovate-deltoid, with numerous imbricated pinn<e, 

 the lowest deltoid, 2 in. 1., 1-1:| in. br. ; pinnl. lanceolate, cut down to the 

 rachis into distant iinear-cuneate sharply-toothed segm. ; texture subcoriaceous ; 

 rachis firm, naked ; aeires obscure, one in each segment ; sm-i copious, — A. Blakis- 

 toni. Baker, edit. 1. 



Hab. Province of Szehuan, West China, Oapt. Blakkton.—'Sea.T peMnense^h-at more 

 compound, with a deltoid not ohlong-lanoeolate outline, '' 



Group of A. lanceolatum. Texture herbaceous or slightly coriaceous. Venation 

 pinnate. Fronds 4-8 in. long, lanceolate. Sp. 133-136. 



133. A. fontanum, Barnh. ; st. tufted, 2-4 in. 1., wiry, slender, naked, 

 greenish ;ji^". 3-6 in. 1., 1-1^ in. br., oblong-lanceolate, with numerous ^mn<B on 

 each sidre, the lower ones short and reflexed, the centi*al ones horizontal, 

 J-| in. 1., J-f in. br., cut down to the rachis into several stalked pinnl. on each 

 side, the lower ones oblong, deeply inciso-pinnatifid ; texture herbaceous ; rachis 

 and upper surface bright-green; »6«»«. oblique ; scyri copious, covering nearly 

 the whole under surface of the pinnl. — Hk. Sp. 3. p. 193. Brit. F. t. 34. — 

 /3, A. Bowgmi, Boiss.; pinnae oblong, blunt, § in. 1., \ in. br., cut down about 

 halfway to the rachis into oblong sharply-toothed lobes, most of them somewhat, 

 decurved. 



Hab. England to Spain, Naples, and Greece ; Lyoia ; Himalayas. — A.refracluin, Moore 

 (Nat. Brit. F. t. 35), only known in cultivation, comes very near var. (3, but has a ohesDut- 

 coloured rachis, and larger, closer, and more distinctly reflexed pinnae. A. exiguum, 

 Beddome, from the Neilgherries, seems to be a less-divided form of this, with narrow 

 fronds and an ebeneous rachis. A similar plant has been gathered in Mexico by Mr. 

 Glenoie, and a long narrow-fronded form, but with broader and more divided pinnee, in 

 Japan by Mr. Wright. 



134. A. varians, Hk. & Gr. ; st. tufted, 1-3 in. 1., slender, naked, greenish ; 

 fr. 4-6 in. 1., 1 in. br., oblong-lanceolate, with 8-12 pinnw on each side, the lower 

 ones subdeltoid, ^-| in. 1., J-f in. br., cut down to the rachis into a few cuneato- 

 flabellate pinnl., the lowest 2 lin. across, sharply toothed on the outer edge ; 

 texture herbaceous ; rachis slender, naked, green ; veins one carried into each 

 tooth ; sori copious, when mature covering nearly the whole under surface of 

 the pinnl.— if*. Sp. 3. p. 192. Hk. <& Gr. Ic. t. 172. 



Hab. Himalayas, Neilgherries, Ceylon, Cape Colony, Caffraria, Natal. 



