TAB. III. 
Asplenium (Euassplenium) lugubre. Hook 
Glabrum, colore toto nigricante, caudice repente crass- 
iusculo radiculoso, frondibus Cfespltosis brevi - stipitatis 
spitbamseis ad pedalem lato-lanceolatis inferne attenuatis 
pinnatis apicem versus pinnatifidis, pinnis sessllibus hori- 
zoutaliter patentibus segmentisque lanceolato-falcatis vix 
acuminatis insequaliter subduplicato-serratis membranaceis 
rigldis subopacis, venis simplicibus v. furcatis apicibus 
intra marginem clavatis, soris versus apicem pinnarum vel 
segmentorum, involucris angustis nigris, stipitibus rachi- 
busque villis paleaceis aterrimis patentibus crinitis. 
Hab. Kina Ballu, Borneo, Hugh Low,junr. Esq, 
A very peculiar looking Asplenium^ entirely of a black 
colour in its dried state, having the short stipes and rachis 
clothed with patent^ long-spreading, intensely black, palea- 
ceous flexuose hairs, or scales. The appearance of the entire 
plant is that of having grown in water, and the pinnas and 
segments are more or less erose, and jagged at the margin, 
and the substance is formed of closely compacted cells, in the 
younger and subpellucid specimens exhibiting a minutely 
reticulated appearance, when held between the eye and the 
light. 
Fig, 1. Portion of a pinna to show the venation, f, 2. Por- 
tion of a fertile pinna, f. 3. Scale from the rachis : — mag- 
nified. 
Cent. 2. t. 3. 
