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ASPLENIE^E. 

 CALLIPTER1S. (See " Ferns of Southern India," p. 54.) 



CaLLIPTERIS PROLIFERA. (Bory.) Caudex "erect scaly/' stipes stout 1-2 feet long deciduously scaly smooth or 

 muricated, fronds 2-4 feet long broad-oblong acuminate subcoriaceous pinnated often with scaly proliferous axillary bulbs, pinnae 

 numerous large horizontally patent sessile 6-10 inches and more long often 2 inches broad sessile from a broad truncated and subcordate 

 and on each side subauricled base oblong gradually narrower to the acute or acuminated apex, the margin entire or serrated or irregularly 

 >sinuato-lobate rarely below again pinnate with oval- oblong acute pinnae, terminal pinnae large hastato-triangular, broad at the base 

 and pinnatifid with long segments entire or serrated at the acuminated apex, veins copious fasciculato-pinnate branches or veinlets uniting 

 and anastomosing more or less copiously, forming triangular areoles next the costse, the rest more or less elongated, sori upon all the veins 

 and anastomising with them, involucres narrow mostly diplazioid. — A. decussatum, Rook. Sp. Fil. iii. 270. — Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 76 and 

 260.— Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 173.— Metten. Asplen. p. 173 ;— Anisogonium, Pr. Tent Pterid. p. 116. t. 4./. 13.— Hook Gen. Fil. p. 56.— 

 (Tab. A. /. 1-4). Aspl. proliferum, Lam. Wall. Cat. p. 236.— Metten. Fil. Eort. Lips. p. 74. t. 11./. 7 ;— Diplazium, Petit. ;— TL 

 Kaulf. En. Fil. p. 182.— Sieb. Syn. Fil. p. 30 ;— D. bulbiferum, Boj. in Herb. HooTc. j — D. horridum, Kze. Annal p. 26 ; — D. Swartzii, 

 Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 191 ; — D. repandum, Bl. En. p. 191 and in Herb. Hook. Aspl. spinulosum, Bl. En. Fil. p. 193 and in Herb, Hook. 

 Aspl. spinulosum, Bl. En. Fil. p. 193. et in Herb. Hook. Callipteris, J. Sm. Asplenium, Metten. Asplen. p. 172 ; — Diplazium accedens, 

 Bl. En. p. 192 ; — D. incisum, " Schuhm R. Dansk. Vidensk. Afhandl. iv. p. 232 j" — Digrammaria robusta, Fee. Gen. p. 218, t. 18. B< 

 The specimen figured is from Assam. 



Hab. Mauritius, Java, Isle of Leyte, Ternate, Moluccas, Borneo, Assam, Solomon's Group, S. Pacific, Feejee Islands, New 



Ireland, Tobie Island, W. Tropical Africa, Fernado Po, 



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