TAB, L. 
Gymogramme (§Syneuron J. Sm.) aspidioides, Hook . 
Frondibus ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis pinnatis utrinque 
(venis praecipue) stipite rachique hirsutis, pinnis sub- 
membranaceis oblongis acuminatis lobato-pinnatifidis basi 
truncatis summis confluentibus, lobis acutis, venulis pluribus 
inferioribus cum oppositis inferioribus conjunct is, et in 
laciniarum sinu excurrentibus, soris linearibus totas fere 
venulas tegentibus, capsulis hispidis. 
Gymogramme Stegnogramme, Blume, Ic. Fil. Jav. p. 98. t. 44. 
Stegnogramme aspidioides, Bl. En . Fil. Jav . p. 172. Presl , 
Tent. Pterid. p. 210. Tab. 9. f. 5. (fragm.) Fee s Gen. Fil. 
p. 204. (not Gymnogramme aspidioides , Bl. Fil. Jav. which 
is G. Totta.) 
Hab. Banks of rivers, Java, elev. 3000 to 4000 feet above the 
sea-level. Blume (in Herb, nostr .), Thos. Lobb . Eastern 
Bengal, Khasya, Griffith , Drs. Hooker and Thomson , 
Mumbree, Griffith. 
Small specimens of this Fern so closely resemble the 
Gymnogramme Totta 9 Schlecht., a native also of Java, that it 
would be difficult to point out any well-marked distinction, 
save that , which, in the opinion of many would form, a 
generic difference, namely, the union of several pairs of veinlets 
which, from the union of the lowermost pair, run up, forming, 
as it were, an intermediate vein, extending to the very sinus 
of the lobes. It therefore, differs from Gymnogramme , as 
Nephrodium does from Lastrea , and as Goniopteris does 
from Polypodium. Of this plant indeed, Blume had formed 
the Genus Stegnogramme , so called from the supposed existence 
of an involucre. He afterwards on discovering his error, 
referred the plant to Gymnogramme , retaining the specific 
name Stegnogramme , which is as inapplicable to the species as 
to the genus. M. Fee maintains the presence of the involucre, 
and unites with it Mesochlcena of Mr. Brown, which had a 
most remarkable involucre. 
Fig. 1 . Portion of a fertile pinnse, seen from beneath : — 
magnified. 
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