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8. Aspleniim resectum. (Sm.) Caudex long, creeping, branched about as thick as a goose quill, stipites scattered distant gene- 
rally (as well as the slender racliis) ebeneous-purple and very glossy, sometimes herbaceous and opaque, 5 inches to a span long, fronds 
membranaceous, dark-green 4-5 inches to a foot and a half long, from deltoid-ovate to narrow-oblong acuminate, pinnate, pinnse varying 
much in numrber, size and shape (terminal ones very small or more or less confluent) sub-rhombeo-ovate or lanceolate often falcate, especi- 
ally toAvards the apex, acute or even acuminate, generally approximate from h an inch to 3 inches long, more or less inciso-serrate, 
superior base truncated and parallel with the rachis not auricled, inferior base, and sometimes the whole inferior half-excised, cut off as it 
were in a straight line or deeply lunate form, so that the costa is in part, or nearly wholly close to the inferior margin, veins forked at 
the superior base two or three times, sori (rarely sub-diplazioid) rather numerous, small oblong in the superior half, in the inferior few and 
those towards the apex, or none ; indusium membranaceous. Hook. Sp. Fil. Ill, 130 ; — Asplenium eroso-dentatum, Bl. En. Fil. Jav., p. 
J33 . decurrens. Wall.; — Asp. unilaterale. Lam. Encijcl. II, 305 ; — A. cristatum. Wall. Cat ; — A. serrseforme, Metten. Asplen.]). 119. 
t. 4, fig- IS ; — A. emarginato-dentatum, Zenkes M. S. Kunze in Linncea XXIV, p. 263 ; — A. amcenum, Pres,l. ; — A fraternum, Presl. ; — A. 
abscissum, Bl. En. Fil. Jav., p. 182 ; — A, porphyrocanlon et erythrocanlon, Bl. I. c. p. I82and 3 ; — A. Isetum, Wall. Cat. n. 209 ( not Siu.) ; 
—A. excissum, Fred, 
Nil°'iris, Anamallays, Pulnies, &c., very common at an elevation of 3,000 to 5,000 feet. 
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9. A. multijiigum. (Wallich.) Caudex erect, stout, with densely fibrous roots, stipites very numerous, coespitose 4-6 inches long 
ebeneous, black glossy as well as the rachis, fronds erect or flexuose, or sub-decumbent, 8 inches to a foot long, elongated linear-oblong, 
moderately acuminated, sometimes proliferous at the apex, rather firm-membranaceous in texture, dark opaque green, pinnated, pinnai 
12-30 and more pairs horizontally approximate, gradually smaller at the apex, 4-8 lines long, falcato-oblong, obtuse, obliquely cuneate 
at the apex, 4-6-8 inches long, falcato-oblong, obtuse obliquely cuneate at the base sessile, superior base truncate prolonged into a sharp 
auricle parallel with and contiguous to the rachis, inferior base cut with a horizontal line which extends nearly the length of the inferior 
margin of the pinnae, the rest superior, and the apex crenato-dentate, costa slender, reniform parallel with and very near the lower 
margin, veins distant, superior ones oblique, simple or forked, inferior ones few and almost parallel with the costa and margin, sori 
oblong, rather large, those above the costa 2-5 rarely more oblique, inferior ones 1-3, involucres broad. Hook. Sp. Fil. Ill, 140 — 
Wallich Cat. n. 207 Aspl. normale, Don. Prod. fl. Xep., p. 7 Asp. multicaule. Wall. Cat. n. 208 ;— Aspl. opacum, Kiinze in Lianoia 
XXIV, p. 261. 
Nil"'iris — Anamallays. Common on the higher elevations. 
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10. Asplenium trapeziforvie ? (Roxb.) Rhizome erect, rachis flattened above, fronds 14 inches to nearly 2 feet long, 3 to 3w 
inches broad, membranaceous glabrous, lanceolate, pinnated, the lower pinnae the largest, and gradually smaller upwards, pinnte 16-20 
pair, shortly petiolate, the lower ones from 1 V to nenrly 2 inches long, 6 lines broad, trapezoid-lanceolate, acuminate, crenated with the 
crenatures obtusely or acutely bifid, superior base generally more or less auricled, inferior exciso cuneate, costa flexuose, all the veins 
forked except 1 or 2 near the apex, which are simple ; sori 5-7 on each side of the costa, involucres membranaceous — Ptoxb. Cnjpt., p. 497 1 
Nilgiris and Anamallays— Common. 
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11. Asplenium Brasiliense. (Raddi.) Rhizome erect, stipes glabrous, grooved and winged above, convex beneath, fronds 10 
inches to l\ foot long, about an inch and a half broad, elliptic linear-lanceolate, rigidly membranaceous, glabrous, dark-green, pinnated 
with the upper and lower pinnse gradually smaller, pinnae numerous very shortly petiolate, \ to | of an inch long, 3-4 lines broad, 
trapezoid-lanceolate obtuse, crenated with the crenatures obtuse, entire or obtusely bifid, superior base auricled, inferior base exciso- 
cuneate, costa of the pinnae flexuose, superior basal veins forked, the upper ones simple, inferior veins all entire, or the basal one only 
forked, sori 2-4 on each side of the costa, but none on the auricle, involucre membranaceous thin, at length reflexed. Raddi. Fil. Bras. 
2). 36, t. 51, /. 1. — Aspl. lunulatum, Sxvartz. — A. lunulatum var. sphenolobium, Kze. in Linnwa xxiv, p. 264, — A. pulchmm. Wall. Cat. 
n. 2211.— A. brachyotus, Xu)ize in Linnoea xxiv, 261. 
Nilgiris— Common about Ootacamund. 
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