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Asplenium Toramanum Makino Notes on Jap. PL XV. in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, VI. 1892, p. 45. 



Small Fern, about 7-30 cm in height. Caudex short, erect, densely 

 clothed with dark scales, emitting the roots which are clothed with rusty 

 tomentose hairs ; scales linear, long and very finely acuminate, nerves dark, 

 close and strong towards the centre, about 5-7 mm long. Stipes ca?spitose, 

 erect, slender, cylindrical, intensely black, glossy, wiry, glabrous, old ones 

 remain from the fallen fronds. Fronds few, much shorter than the stipes, 

 lanceola to- subdeltoid, much prolonged towards the apex, 5-13 cm long, 2-9 

 cm wide, bipinnate, glabrous, rather thin, somewhat coriaceous, green ; rachis 

 nearly filiform, glabrous, black and glossy in the inferior portion, but green 

 in the superior ; pinnae lanceolate, but ovate-oblong in the superior ones, 

 shortly petioled, with abrupted apex, pinnate but pinnatifid in the upper 

 portion ; pinnules; : lower ones ovate, sub-sessile, erect-patent, moderately 

 close to each other, cuneate at the base, largest ones about 7-9 mm long, 

 4-5 mm broad, inciso-lobed, lower lobes often paucidehtate ; upper pinnules 

 much reduced in size, obovate, Bessile, scantily subflabellate-dentate, passing 

 into merely the teeth-lobes of pimue at the uppermost portion ; veins straight, 

 subflexuous, pinnate ; veinlets free, erect-patent, simple, or 2-forked, but sub- 

 flabellate-pinnate in the lower ones, faintly elevated on the upper surface 

 of the frond when dry, each branch running towards the teeth of the 

 margin. Soil approximately situated on the upper portion of the pinnules, 

 1-4 in number, linear-oblong ; indusium entire. 



Nom. Jap. Kurogorte-shida (T. Makino). 



Hob. Frov. Tosa: Hirose (S. Tsudmhi ! 1891, T. Lionel May and 

 Nov. 1891), Dzigoku-dani near Kochi (T. Inoue ! March 14, 1S93 ; T. 

 Makino ! June 1893). 



A very distinct species among the Japanese Ferns. Its black, glossy, 

 and wiry stipe reminds of the genus Adiantum. I have named it in 

 memory of Mr. Torama Inoue, a friend of mine in my native village Sakawa 

 in the province of Tosa, Shikoku. 



Asplenium shikoklanum Makino Notes on Jap. PI. XV. in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, VI. 1892, p. 45. 



Caudex stout, oblique, densely rooting. Stipes oespitose, often much 

 long, scaly at the base ; scales black, linear, long acuminate, with fine and 

 close areola?. Frond oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 30- 

 40 cm long, 14-17 cm broad, bipinnate, green on both surfaces, coriaceo- 

 herbaceous, glabrous : rachis slender, nearly naked, narrowly winged above : 



