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Asplenium — continued. 



A. longiasimum, Blume. Hab.: Mauritius, Island of Diego 

 Garcia. 



A. longicauda, Hooh. Hab. : Cameroon Mountains, Prince's 

 Island ; Fernando Po, on trees ; Peak Mountain, at an elevation 

 above the sea of 3,000 feet. Hook. Second Cent. Ferns, t. 69. $. 



A. emarginatum, Beauv. Hab. : Tropical Western Africa, 

 Guinea Coast and Angola ; mountains of Prince's Island, Bigbt of 

 Benin, river Onitoba ; Fernando Po, on mountains of 1,000 feet 

 elevation. Hook. Second Cent. Ferns, t. 80. $. 



A. tenerum, Forst. Hab. : Fernando Po, Seychelles. Kuhn. 



A. lineatum, Swz. Hab. : Bourbon, Mauritius. $. 



A. erectum, Bory. Hab. ; Western Tropical Africa, Prince's 

 Island, Bight of Biafra, Fernando Po, Sugar-loaf Mountain ; Sierra 

 Leone, rare; Ascension Island; Green Mountain, in crevices of 

 rocks most abundant, 1,000 feet elevation ; Bourbon ; Mauritius, 

 common in moist shady rocky localities (var. proliferum). St. 

 Helena, moist rocks, shady places; Diana's Peak, elevation 2,000 

 feet. (A. Baxteri, Hook. Second Cent. Ferns, t. 75.) 



A. Prionitis, Kunze. Hab. : Angola, Bourbon, Mauritius. 



A. anisophyllum, Kunze. Hab. : Bourbon, Zambesi Land ; Mount 

 Kilimandjaro, 5,500-7,800 feet. — Kuhn. Cameroon Mountains. 



A. hirtum, Kaulf. Hab. . Bourbon, Mauritius, Madagascar, 

 Seychelles. 



A. compressum, Sioz. Hab. : St. Helena, ' exclusively, we believe, 

 a native of St. Helena.' Hook. Sp. Fil. $. 



A. nitens, Swz. Hab. : Bourbon, Mauritius, Comoro Isles, 

 Angasilia Isle. Kuhn. 



A. platybasis, Kunze. Hab. : St. Helena. $. 



A. Serra, Langs fy Fisch. Hab. : Cameroon Mountains, Fer- 

 nando Po. 



A. marinum, Linn. Hab. : St. Helena. Kuhn. 



A. gemmiferum, Schrad. Hab. : Angola, Zambesi Land, Bour- 

 bon, Mauritius, Madagascar. 



A. auritum, Swz. Hab. : Bourbon. 



A. falcatum. Lam. Hab. : Mascaren Isles, Zambesi Land. 



A. caudatum, Forst. Hab. : Johanna Isle, Angola. 



A. dimidiatum, Sioz. Hab. : Tropical Africa ; Fernando Po, 

 growing on oil-palms. 



A. macrophyllum, Swz. Hab. : Bourbon, Mauritius, Comoro 

 Isles, Johanna Island, Mayotte ; Nossi-beh, near Madagascar ; 

 Angasilia Island, near the city of Kitanda. 



A. formosum, Willd. Hab. : Angola and Congo. 



A. resectum. Smith. Hab. : Bourbon, Mauritius, Seychelles, 

 Angola and Guinea Coast, Fernando Po. Hook. S/- Or. le. Fil. 

 t. 114. 



A. protensum, Schrad. Hab. : Mauritius, Fernando Po ; on Mount 

 Kilimandjaro, district of Dschagga, 5,500-7,800 feet. — Kuhn, Abys- 

 sinia, mountains near Adesoula. 



A. bipartitum, Bory. Hab. : Bourbon and Mauritius, in shady 

 woods and on trunks of trees; Comoro Isles, Nossi-beh Island, 

 Madagascar, $, 



