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ASPLENIUM. 
ASPLENIUM HIRTUM. (Klfs.) Caudex short thick woody scarcely creeping densely clothed with subulate black fringed 
hair-like scales which are continued on the stipes and rachis and partially on the costs beneath where they become patent at length deci. _ 
duous, stipites subcoespitose a span to a foot and more long dull lurid-blackish rather stout, fronds 13 to 2 and more feet long lanceolate 3 
acuminate coriaceous or stout-chartaceous very opaque brown, pinnated, pinnæ numerous approximate lowest ones small remote sessile E 
horizontal, supreme ones gradually smaller and terminating in a pinnatifid acumen, the rest 1-3 inches long lanceolate obtuse or acuminate — 
generally strongly serrated, serratures sometimes unequally bi-tridentate, the superior base truncated and with a more or less distinct 5 
auricle, inferior base more or less excised (never auricled) veins erecto-patent simple or once or twice forked, sori copious linear regular — 
nearer the costa than the margin, involucres narrow very firm and rigid brown sometimes black. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. p. 149°; Kaulfs 
En. Fil. p. 169; A. pellucidum Zam. Encycl. ii. p. 306 ; A. stenopteris Kze. in Bot. Zeit. vi. p. 174? A. acutinsculum 27. 7 Fl a 
Jav. p. 178 2 A. approximatum Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 179; A. Torresianum Gaud. in Freyc. Voy. p. 317; A. Meyenianum Presl; A 
plumosum Bory ; A. Helsinbergii Sieb. Fl. Mixt, n. 316. 
The figure is taken from Sir W. Hooker's Sp. Fil. Nearly allied to A. longissimum but differing in having the caudex and stipes 1 
furnished with black scaly hairs and in the base of the 2 only being auricled at the superior base, 
Hab, Burmah (Parish) Penang, Guahan Island, Solomon Island, Java, Madagascar, Borne, Luzon, Mauritius, Bourbon, 
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