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ASPLEN IUM. — -" à 
ASPLENIUM BELANGERI. (Kze. ) Caudex short, stout an aa. ‘formed of the united stipites aud roots, 
stipites densely tufted, 4 inches to a span long, compressed upwards greenish, fronds 1-14 foot long narrow-oblong (the sides almost 
forming a parallelogram) acuminated only at the apex, sparingly stellato-squamulose beneath, here and there proliferous, subchartace- 
ous, pale-green, bipinnate, primary pinnæ from 1-2 inches long, horizontally patent, singularly uniform in the whole length, linear obtuse 
nearly sessile again pinnated (or they may be said to be deeply pinnatifid,) pinnules or segments 2-3 lines long linear-clavate or subspa- 
thulate obtuse straight or a little curved decurrent with the rachis simple monosorous or the lowest superior one is bifid or subpinnatifid, i 
veins solitary central, sori large conspicuous, occupying nearly the length of the pinnule, marginal, involucres, color and texture almost 
of the frond, main rachis compressed, partial ones distinctly winged. Hook. Sp. Fil, iii, 209 j— Kee, Bot. Zeit, vi. p. 176; ;—Darea 
furcata, Bl, p. 207 ;一 Aspl, Veitchianum, Moore ;一 Aspl， decorum, Ke, Bot. Zeit, vi, 176. 
The specimen figured i is from the Malay Peninsula. : Š 
Hab, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, Sumatra, 
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