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2. Asplenium Feejeensis, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 19.) 



A. frondibus stipitatis rnembranaceis glabris elongato-lanceolatis attend 

 atis apice obtusis proliferis margine subrepandis ; stipite basi costaque 

 subtus squamosis; venis fur catis ; indusio angmto-lineari integerrimo. 



Hab. Feejee and Samoan Islands : on trees and moist rocks. 



Stipe angular, about a span long, squamose at the base; the costa 

 ton the under side chaffy, with short, scattered, attenuate, reticulated 

 scales, their margin sometimes spinulose-dentate. Fronds Ih feet in 

 length and from 2i to 3 inches broad, smooth, membranaceous, and 

 somewhat flaccid, elongated-lanceolate, and narrowing gradually into 

 an obtuse proliferous point, the margin very slightly repand. Veins 

 usually forked, seldom simple; the venules slender, oblique, and 

 parallel. Sori rather distant, and almost invariably produced on the 

 upper half of the frond, the outer points of the lines of sori termina- 

 ting about the same distance from the margin as the inner point is 

 from the .costa. Indusiwm narrowly linear, entire, and persistent 



This seems to be related to the A. squamidatum of Blume. 



Plate 19. — Fig. 1. Frond, of the natural size. 1 a. Scale from 

 under side of the costa. 1 b. Sporangium. — Magnified. 



.3. Asplenium Amboinensje, Willd. (Tab. 19.) 



A. rhizomate repente; stipite brevi squamoso; frondibus coriaceis glabris 

 lanceolatis breviter acuminatis basi attenuatis in stipitem decurrentibus 

 marginibus suhrevolutis, costa juxta apicem prolifera; venis obliquis 

 parallelis simplicibus rariusve furcatis; soris approximate; indusio 

 coriaceo integerrimo. 



Asplenium Amboinense, Willd. Spec. PI. t>, p. 303. 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands : on rocks and trunks of trees, at an 

 altitude of 2,000 feet. 



