TAB. III. 
Asplenium (Euassplenium) lugubee, Hook. 
Glabrum, colore toto nigricante, caudice repente crass- 
iusculo radiculoso, frondibus casspitosis brevi - stipitatis 
spithamieis ad pedalem lato-lanceolatis inferne attenuatis 
pinnatia apicem versus pinnatifidis, pinnis sessilibus hori- 
zontaliter patentibus segmentisque lanceolato-falcatis vix 
acuminatis insequaliter subduplicato-serratis membranaceis 
rigidis subopacis, veins simplicibus v. fur cat is apicibus 
intra marginem clavatis, soris versus apicem pinnarum vel 
segmentorum, involucris angustis nigris, stipitibus rachi- 
busque villis paleaceis aterrimis patentibus crinitis. 
ITab. 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 pinna; 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. /. 2 Por- 
tion of a fertile pinna. /. 3. Scale from the rachis:-™™- 
Cent. 2. t. 3. 
