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ASPLEN1UM. 



ASPLENIUM BULBIFERUM. (Forst.) Caudex stout horizontal or oblique paleaceous with long linear-subulate scales 

 at the summit, stipites lurid-green i inches to a foot long sometimes deciduously and sparsely paleaceous semiterete or broad and 

 compressed, fronds sub-coriaceo-membranaceous, yet flaccid 1-3 feet long ovato-lanceolate erect or pendulous dark-green pinnato-pinnatifid 

 with lobes entire or toothed or usually bi-rarely tripinuate, primary pinnae often proliferous 6 inches long petiolate more or less lanceo- 

 late acuminated, pinnules in the normal form from & an inch to 2 inches long elliptical-ovate and more or less pinnatifid with ewasple- 

 nioid sori or the pinnules are narrower elongated deeply divided, and the majority of them quite dareoid, sori oblique, involucres firm 

 greenish, 'rachises compressed.-//oo£. Sp. Fil. iii. UQ.-Forst. Prodr. p. 80.-Sw. Syn. Fil. pp. S3 and 278,-SchL Fil. t. 19.-Hooh 

 Ic PI t. m.—Hombr. et. J acq. Toy. Pol. Sad. Bot, t. 3. /. i.— Hook, fil. Fl. N. Zeal. ii. p. Zi.—Fl. Tarn. ii. p. US.—Metten. Asplen. 

 p.lOG.-Moore Ind. Fil. p. 118 j Camopteris, Desv. ;-Aspl. viridans, Labill. Sert. Aust. Caled. I p. 2. t. 2 ;—Metten. Aspkn. p. 107 ; 

 —A, bullatum, Wall. Cat. n. 215 ;— Athyrium macrocarpum, Fee. Gen. Fil. p. 188 ;— Asplen., Moore. 



The specimen figured is from Sikkim (Dr. Thomson), the plate has been named A. bullatum (Wail.), and should be altered to 

 A. bulliferum, Forst, as that is an older name. 



Hab. New Zealand, Australia, Nepaul, Sikkim, Bhotau, Penang, South America. 



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