ASPLENIUM. 



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deeply cut, and the latter so broad that they are often overlapping. — 

 Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 226. 



A. (Anisogonium) Smithianum — An-is- og-o'-nl-um ; Smith-i-a'-num 

 (Smith's), Baker. 



A stove species, native of Ceylon, and one very closely related to 

 A. lati folium, from which it differs only through its anastomosing (inter- 

 mixed) venation and the roughness of its stalks. — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, 

 p. 244. 



A. spathulinum — spath-ul-i'-num (spoon -shaped). Synonymous with 

 A. ajjine. 



Fig. 127. Entire Frond and Pinna of Asplenium speciosum 

 (Frond, i nat. size ; Pinna, nat. size). 



A. (Diplazium) speciosum — Dip-laz'-i-um ; spec-i-o'-sum (showy), 

 - Mettenius. 



A stove species, of bold appearance, native of the Philippine and Malayan 

 Islands, Java, and Hong-Kong, with fronds 1ft. to 2ft. long, Sin. to 12in. broad, 

 borne on straw-coloured, erect stalks 1ft. or more long, and produced from 

 a wide-creeping rhizome. The leaflets, of a thin but firm texture, 4in. to 6in. 

 long and fin. to lin. broad, have their edge conspicuously lobed and slightly 



