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.* * x * Frondes decomposita? . 

 47. ASPLENIUM SCANDICINUM, Edulf. 

 Asplenium scandicinum, Kaulf. Enum. Pil. p. 177. 



Hab. Organ Mountains, Brazil: on trees and decayed wood. 



The fronds of this are very graceful, flaccid, glabrous, and decom- 

 pound, from one to 1 k feet long ; the inferior branches from three to 

 four times pinnate. Pinnules ovate-cuneate, incisely-dentate ; each 

 segment bearing from one to 3 sorL 



§3. DABEA. Wiltd. 

 *■ Frondes pinnato?. 



48. Asplenium flaccidum, Forst. 



Asplenium flaccidum, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. n. 426. 



A. heterophyllum, A. Rich. Bot. Voy. Astrol. p. 74, excl. syn. R. Br. 



Camopteris Jlaccida, §w. Syn. Fil. p. 87 & 281; A. Cunn. in Hook. Comp. Bot. 



Mag. 2, p. 364. 

 Darea Jlaccida, Willd. Spec.Pl. 5, p. 295. 



Hab. Vicinity of the Bay of Islands, New Zealand : epiphytical. 



This species is remarkable for its smooth, pallid, coriaceous, flaccid 

 fronds, which are constantly pinnate; the pinnae distant or crowded, 

 -sometimes entire or merely dentate, but usually pinnatifid two-thirds 

 .down to the costa; each segment bearing a single sorus. 



-■* * Frondes bipinnataz. 



49. Asplenium bulbiferum, Forst. 



J/L stipitibus semiteretibus sulcatis squamosis; frondibus bipinnatis; 

 pinnis suboppositis, proliferis; pinnulis oblongis rnembranaceis glabrifi 



