TAB. XXXVITI. 
Asplenium (Euasplenium) FERULACEUM, Moure. 
Caudice ? stipite 14 uncias longo robusto pallide fusco hinc 
sulcato, fronde sesquipedali supradecoinposita (4-5-pinnata) 
kete viridi membranacea deltoideo-ovata acuminata, pinnis 
primariis numerosis subdistantibus inferioribus 6-8 uncias 
longis petiolatis late ovatis acuminatis, secundariis 3 uncias 
longis, ultimis brevibus lineam longis lineari-subspathulatis 
mono-rarius disoris, venis costaeformibus, soris parvis dare- 
oideis, involucris viridescentibus submembranaceis, rachibus 
primariis secundariisque teretibus stramineis nitidis ultimis 
augustissimis compressis glabris. 
Asplenium ferulaceum, Hook Sp Fil. 3. p. 216. Moore. Mss. 
in Herb. Nostr. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 130. (name only, no 
character or description.) 
Hab. New Grenada, Hartweg. n. 1519. Quito, Jameson, in 
Herb. Nostr. 
A vei 7 distinct and elegant, and hitherto undescribed 
species, of the Darea- group, remarkable for the very com- 
pound, or rather decompound, finely cut pinnae, and the 
terete primary and secondary rachises, which are stramineous 
and glossy. 
Fig. 1. Stipes and base of a lower primary pinna, f. 2. A 
peiioi primal y pinna ; nat. size. f. 3. Pinnule with sori : 
magnified. 
Cent. 2. t. 38. 
