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base the broadest, sub-auricled generally acute, and as well as other of the inferior lobes serrated, inferior base excised, towards the 
apex the lobes are reduced to ratlier large remote serratures, veins approximate, erecto-patent with forked branches, sori long-linear, 
numerous diverging from near the costa in the direction of the veins to near the margin, giving a striated appearance to the pinnse, 
involucres narrow, firm-membranaceous. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii, 160 ;— Za???. Encyd. ii, p. 306 ; — Asplenium polyodon, Forst Frod , j- 
80 ;— Aspl. zamiajfolium, Pr, Relig. H(£nk. i, 43?; — Tarachia Haenkeana, Fr. Fpim. Bot., p. 76; — Asp. cultratum, G mid in 
Freyc. Voy. Bot., p. 317. 
Anamallay forests on rocks 3,-500 feet— Courtallum and Travancore. (AVight.) (The scales of the caudex are hair-like, and 
the plant here figured is perhaps rather a variety of A. longissimum, Blume— if so I have not found the true falcatuni.) 
PLATE No. CXLI. 
18. Asplenium macrophyllum. (Swartz.) Caudex repent, stout, paleaceous with subulate sphagnoid. dark-brown scales 
stipites 4-5 inches to a foot long, lurid or greenish brown, deciduously paleaceous, fronds 8-10 inches to a foot and more long, broad- 
ovate coriaceous firm-reddisli-brown, when dry, pinnate, pinnfe 3-5 to 24-25 petiolate, horizontal from a broad cuneate base, trapezio- 
ovate or broad-lanceolate, gradually tapering into a more or less elongated acumen 3-5-6 inches long, undivided or with one or two sharp 
lobes, especially the superior ones, from 1 to 3 inches broad in the broadest part, superior base rounded, inferior excised in a straight 
line, unequally and slightly or deeply inciso-serrate, straight or falcate, striated with venation, terminal pinnae often much larger than 
the rest bifid or trifid, veins numerous, croAvded parallelo-radiate several times forked, sori very long in the large pinns as long as the 
veins 2-3 inches, involucres very narrow, firm. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii, 158 ; — Sw. in Sclirad. Journ. 1800 ii, p. 52 ; — A. intermedium, 
Kaulf. in Sieh. Syn. n. 68 ;— A. Kaulfussii, Fr. Tent. Pterid, p. 106 ;— A. canaliculatum, Bl. En. Fil. Jav., p. 180 ;— A. coriaceum. 
Pox. Crypt. Fit., p. 497 ; — A. Fiiilaysonianum, Wall. Cat., p. 101 ; — A. megalophyllum, Desv. in Mem. Soc. Linn, vi, 275 ; — A. 
platyphylium, J. Sm., Rook. Journ. Bot. iii, 408 ;— A. oxyphyllum, J. Sm. I. c, 408. 
Var. 8 uro2>hiJIum — pinnae broad-lanceolate long caudate; — A. urophyllum, Wallich Cat. n. 192; — A. Tavoyanum, Wall. 
Cat. n., 1035 ; — Anamallay forests on rocks and trees 2,000 to 4,000 feet elevation. — Nilgiris. 
PLATE No. CXLIL 
19. Asplenium caudatum. (Forst.) Caudex nearly as thick as a swan's quill, terete clothed especially towards the 
apex, with broad-subulate brown sphagnoid imbricated falcate scales, stipites (rachis and the whole frond when young) vil- 
loso-squamose, sub-aggregate a span or more long, dull-lurid-brown, fronds foot long, coriaceo-chartaceous broad lanceolate, 
pinnated acuminated, the apex pinnatifid, pinnaj numerous rather remote, 2-3-4 inches long, petiolate sub-falcate from a more 
or less elongated and obliquely cuneated sub-rhomboid base, lanceolate, gradually and very long acuminated (caudate) superior 
base rounded or sub-auricled, scarcely truncate, the inferior more or less excised, the margins very coarsely serrato-pinnatifid, 
superior serratures entire sharp, the rest bifid or inciso-serrate, veins erecto-patent mostly forked, sori-linear, elongated almost 
parallel with and near the costa, often imbricating in age, frequently confluent, involucres firm-membranaceous. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii, 
152. — Forst. Prod., p. 80 ;— Aspl. aureum, Bl. En. Fil. Jav., p. 184 ; — Aspl. truncatilobum. Fee ; — A. ryathesefolium, Bory in Rich. Voy. 
Astrolah. Bot., p. 19 ;— Diplazium cyatheajfolium, Pr. Epim. Bot, p. 88 ;— A. multisectum, Bl. En. Fil. Jav., p. 185. 
Cochin— (I have not myself met with this species, and the drawing is taken from a specimen kindly sent me from Ceylon by 
Mr. Thwaites.) 
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Note. — The above 5 species of the (simply pinnate) jurcatum qroup, in:., planicaule — continum—folcatnm— macrophyllum, 
and caudatum are very closely allied, and Botanists do not agree as to the limits of the species. 
20. Asplenium furcatum. (Thunb.) Caudex oblique, scarcely repent, stout, clothed above with copious very slender glossy brown 
silky hair-like ciliated scales, stipites copious, tufted 4 inches to a span long, more or less clothed as is the rachis with ferrugineous 
ciliated hair-like scales or glabrous, fronds a span to a foot and more long, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate coriaceous rigid, mostly bi-rarely 
tri-pinnate dark-green and glabrous above, pale and often villous beneath, pinnae and pinnules more or less patent, primary ones petio- 
late, secondary ones more or less decurrent generally narrow, cuneate or sub-spathulate or rhomboidal, truncated or rounded or acuminated, 
at the apex bi-trifid or bi-tripartite, the apices dentate, or variously and often very irregularly incised ; veins conspicuous, compact, once 
or more forked erect (giving a striated appearance to the pinnae) linear elongate parallel with the central vein (there is no distinct costa) 
