398 59. HEMIONITIS, S euSemionitis. 



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2. D. piloselloides, Presl ; rhizome filiform, wide -creeping ; fr. dimorphous, 

 the barren ones roundish or obovate-elliptical, |-2 in. 1., ^| in. br., the fertile 

 ones linear-oblong, 2-4 in. 1., \-\ in. br., both narrowed' to the base or a short 

 stem ; texture coriaceous ; mins immersed," anastomosing, ^with copious free 

 veinlets ; sori in a broad continuous submarginal line, the capsules mixed with 

 stellate paraphyses;— ^yi. 8p. 6. p. 1 90. G. F. t. 46. 



■^ Hab. Himalayas, Neilgherrjes, Ceylon, Malaccas. 



3. D. rigidum^Hk. ; rUsome firm, wide-creeping ; fr. dimorphous, the barren 

 ones 1-1 J ia. 1., half as br., obovate, entire, with thicliened edges, on firm erect 

 stems 1 in. 1.-, the fertile one 4-5 in. 1., ^ in, br., narrowed into ~a stem about as 

 long as itself; textwre very^ thick and rigid ; areolae copious, immersed, without 

 free veinlets ; sori in a deep groove between the broad midrib and edge. — Hk. Sp, 

 5. p. 190. / 



Hab. Borneo, T. Lobb. — An anomalous species, which Moore places in SchizoUpton of 

 F^e, a genus founded on our I/mdswya cordata. 



Gen. 50. Hesjionitis, Linn. (See page 618.) 



Sori continijous., along the veins and copiously reticulated, sometimes also 

 developed slightly' between them. A small genus, as now restricted, almost con- 

 fined to the tropics. Veins anastomosing copioush/. Tab. VI. fig. 69. 



§ Euhemionitis. Sori confined to the veins, Sp. 1-6. 



, 1. H. laneeolata, Hk. ; caud. stout, ascending ; st. 6-9 ili. 1., firm, erect, glogsy, 

 castaneous ; fr. 6-9 in. 1., 1^-2^^ in. br,, ovate or oblong-lanoeolate, the apex 

 acuminate, the edge subentire, the base narrowed ; texture coriaceous ; both 

 sides naked ; areolce copious, oblique, about \ in. 1., 1 lin. br. — Hk. Sp. 5. p. 191. 

 2nd Cent. t. 56. 



Hab. Fiji, Seemann, 716, Milne. 



2. H. cordata, Roxb. ; caud. erect ; St. of the barren frond 2-4 in. I., of the 

 fertile frond often 1 ft. 1., dark chesnut- brown, glossy, densely fibrillose towards 

 the base ; fr. 2-3 in. each way, cordate-hastate, the barren ones bluntish at the 

 point, with rounded basal lobes and a deep sinus, the fertile ones with the lobes 

 more produced and sharper ; texture herbaceous or subcoriaceous ; under surface 

 subvillose ; areolcB oblique, \-\ in. 1., \ lin. br. — Hh, Sp, 5. p, 192, Hk. & Or, 

 t. 64. Asplenium arifolium, Burm., oldest name. 



Hab. Peninsular India, Ceylon, Moulmein, JPhilippines. 



3. H, palmata, L. ; caud. erect ; st. of barren frond 2-4 in., of the fertile frond 

 6-12 in. i., glossy,, d.irk chesnut-brown, clothed with soft yellowish hairs ;_/r. 

 2-6 in. each way, palmate, with five nearly equal lanceolate divisions, those of 

 the fertile frond the sharpest, varying from subentire to lobed one-third of the 

 way down, those of the barren frond shorter, blunter,' and less divided ; te(etwe 

 herbaceous ; both surfaces villose ; areolce oblique, J-J in. L, i-1 lin. br. — Hk. 

 Sp. 6. p. 192, Ex. Fl. t. 63. 



Hab. West Indies and Mexico to Peru. 



4. H. heoB^cefolia, 3. Sm. ; caud. decumbent ; st. nearly 1 ft. I. ebeneous 

 naked ; fr. about 3 in. each way, palmate, with 6 Igbes, the three central ones 

 about equal, lanceolate, the lateral ones spreading, shorter and blunterj all 



