492 DIPLORA. 



tripinnatifid ; racMs smooth, livid, scattered over with flaccid scales above ; 

 pinnm oblong-lanceolate, 1 ft. I, ; pinnl. sessile, or short-stalked, ligulate-lan- 

 ceolate, 2i in. 1., f-| in. br., cut down to a narrow wing into bluntly-toothed 

 segm.; veins simple, distant, 3-4-jugate ; sori thickishj infra-medial. — Kuhn, 

 Linn. 36. p. 103. 



Hab. Island of Bawak, Gaudichaud. 



245*. A. (Dipl.) polyanthes, Soland ; arborescent ; fr. ample, deltoid, tripin- 

 natifid ; rachises naked, grey, not muricated ; pinnm oblong-lanceolate, 1-1-| 

 ft. 1. ; pinnl. ligulate-lanoeolate, distinctly stalked, 3-4 in. 1., 1 in. br., cut down 

 to a narrow wing into close blunt subentire segm. 1^-2 lin. br. ; texture mem- 

 branous ; surfaces giahrovis, bright-green ; m«s 7-8-jugate, distinct, lower forked; 

 sori not touching midrib or edge, lower 2 lin., upper 1 lin. 1. 



Hab. Otaheite, Sir Joseph Banks. 



260*. A. (Dipl.) herbaceum, Baker ; arborescent ; rachises stramineous, naked; 

 fr. ample, subdeltoid, 4-pinnatifid ; lowev pinnce oblong-deltoid, l5-2ft. 1. ; pinnl. 

 distinctly stalked, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 3-6 in. 1., 1-2 in. br. ; segm. 

 sessile, ligulate-oblong, blunt, pinnatifid, with close blunt entire lobes ; texture 

 membranous ; surfaces bright-green, naked ; veins pinnate in final lobes ; sori 

 1-1 J lin., touching midrib, falling short of edge. — Diplazium herbaceum, Fee, 

 Fil. Bras. t. 2S.flg. 1. A. Glaziovii, Baker, Fl. Bras. fasc. 49. p. 456. 



Hab. Eio Janeiro, Qladou, 2061, S303, Lieut. Carr ; and a orosely-allled plant from 

 Peruvian Andes, Spruce, 6701. 



277*. A. (Hemi.) Oheisbreghtii, Fourn. ; fr. densely csespitose, 1| ft. 1., 1;^ 

 in. br. at middle, lanceolate, entire, narrowed gradually from the middle to an 

 acute point and short st. ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces pale-green, glabrous ; 

 veins fine, erecto-patent, uniform, forming several rows of areolae between the 

 midrib and edge ; sori linear, largest 1 in. 1., forming an angle of 10 degrees with 

 midrib near it. — Fil. Mex. p. 111. t. B, 



Hab. Mexico, Gheishreght, 16. 



XXXVIII*.— DIPLORA, Baker. 



Sorus sausage-shaped, running up the erecto-patent simple vein from the mid- 



Im 



rib of the frond to its margin. Invol. with two equal narrowly strap 

 valves, meeting in the middle over the raised vein, and bursting open as the sorus 

 matures. — Journ. Bot. new series 2. p. 235, with plate. 



1. D.integrifoUa, Baker; rhizome wide-creeping, naked, green, woody, under 

 1 lin. thick ; st. articulated at the base, under 1 in., naked, greenish ; Jr. entire, 

 linear-ligulate, 9-j,0 in. 1., i in. br., narrowed to both ends, obscurely crenato- 

 repand ; texture membranous ; surfaces green, naked ; veins distinct, erecto-patent, 

 usually simple ; sori J-f in. 1,, 60-60 on each side of midrib. 



Hab. Solomon Isles, Mrs. Burnett. — Habit and rhizome like Asplenium viitceforme. 



XLIII.-ASPIDIUM. Page 248-269. 



3*. A. (Polyst.) craspedosorwm, Maxim. ; caud. erect ; scales large, brown, lan- 

 ceolate ; St. 1-1^ in., stramineous, scaly throughout, like the rachis ifr. lanceolate, 

 simply pinnate, 4r6 in. 1., j-l J in. br., often rooting at tip ; pinnm 20-30-jugate, 

 sessile, lanceolate, blunt, unequal-sided, serrate, l|-2 lin. br., square on upper 

 side, cuneate-truncate on lower side at base, lowest shorter, deflexed ; texture 

 subcoriaceous ; \>oih.'sides pale-gre^n, with a few scales ; sori crowded, marginal, 



