tab. xx. 
ASPLENIUM (Euasplenium) quitense, Hook. 
Parvum, caudice filiform! repente lfic illio inferne radiculoso, 
stipitibus subfasciculatis 3-4 ex eodem puncto 1 J unciam 
longis nudis gracilibus herbaceis superne una cum rachibus 
marginato-alatis, frondibus2J-3i uncias longis submembra- 
naceis atroviridibus lanceolatis pinnatis, pinnis 6 — 9-jugis 
horizontaliter patentibus sublonge petiolatis oblique ovatis 
pinnatifido-lobatis basi infeme cuneato-incisis, lobis obtusis 
integerrimis basi superiore lobo majore auriculaeformi bi- 
trifido, yenis simplicibus vel (in auriculam) bi-trifurcatis 
apice intra marginem clavatis, soris majusculis oblongis, 
involucro membranaceo latiusculo. 
Asplenium Quitense, Hook. Spec. Fil. vol. 3. ined. 
Hab. On decayed trees in the forest of Archedona, Qui- 
tinian Andes. Prof. W. Jameson, n. 707. 
I refer this distinct and very pretty Fern, to the Tricho- 
manes division of Euasplenium, and it has some affinity with 
several of the less rigid, herbaceous species of that section ; 
but is peculiar in the slightly winged rachis, the very dis- 
tinctly petiolated, rather deeply phmatifid, lobate pinme, and, 
above all, in the long filiform creeping caudex. 
Fig. 1. Sterile pinna, 
beneath, f 3, Portion of 
f 2. Fertile pinna, seen from 
a pinna, with sorus : — all magnified. 
Cent. 2 , t. 20 . 
