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ASPLENIUM. 



ASPLENIUM LONGISSIMUM. (Bl.) Caudex stout woody paleaceous with rather long brown lanceolato-subulate scales, 

 Spites and rachis dark lurid-black deciduously villoso-paleaceous, fronds very variable in length 1-3 and more feet elongato-oblong- 

 lanceolate subcoriaceous opaque dark-brown (when dry) the extremity running out apparently with a continuous growth to a long 

 narrow acumen rooting and bearing young plants at the apex pinnated, pinna 3-4 inches long very numerous horizontal sessile moderately 

 distant from a broad (|-f inch) cuneated base lanceolate gradually and much acuminated more or less strongly serrated especially above 

 the middle, superior base with a triangular auricle, inferior base often also auricled or with an angle, inferior pinna gradually smaller 

 and very obtuse, veins erecto-pate&t once or twice forked, sori copious close-placed regular nearer the costa than the margin, involucre 

 subcoriaceous rigid narrow brown.- Hooh Sp. Fil, iii. U8.-JBI En. Fil. Jav. p. m.-Metten. Asplen. p. 147-AspI. flagelhferun,, 

 Wall, Cat. n. 219, {where, for " Sylhet," read Siugapore) Aspl. sordidum, Kze, Bot. Zeit. vi. p. 174, (Jide MHten.J. 



The figure is taken from Sir W. Hooker's " Species Filicum." 



Hab. Mergul, Birmah, Singapore, Malacca, Java, Mauritius, and Diego Garcia. 



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