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82. Asplenium Hollandii Sim 1 . 
Plate 69. Nat. size, b Fertile pinnule, enlarged. 
Stipe paleaceous, six inches long. Frond ovate-deltoid, 
quadripinnate, thinly coriaceous, two feet long, twelve inches 
wide below the middle, rather narrower to the base and 
gradually less upward. Rachis brown, fibrillose, grooved. 
Pinnae six inches long, two inches wide below, with a mar- 
gined rachis and alternate pinnules, of which the lowest is 
on the upper side. Pinnules one inch long, half inch wide, 
cut into stalked segments, of which the upper are simple 
and the lower 3 — 4-fid. Ultimate segments pointed, two to 
three lines long, half line wide or less, their stalks narrower. 
Segments of barren frond blunt. Sori abundant, lateral, short, 
flattened, one near the base of each ultimate segment; the 
involucre scarious and attached at the base and sides. A 
beautiful fern, one of the largest and most finely cut Dareae, 
but with davallioid sori, which led to its being described by 
me at first as Davallia ( Loxoscaphe ) Hollandii in Trans. S. A. 
Phil. Soc. Vol. XVI. Pt 3, 274, Aug. 1906. The illustration 
there used is here reproduced. 
Rhodesia. — Near Umtali (Holland, Mrs Bennett) ; Gwaai River 
(J. Sim). 
Well worth cultivation. 
1 82. Asplenium Hollandii Sim. 
Tab. 69. Mag. nat. b Pinnula fertilis, amplif. 
Stipes paleaceus, 6" longus; folia ovato-deltoidea, quadripinnata, tenuiter 
coriacea, 2' longa, 12" lata infra medium, basin versus paulo angustiora, sursum 
sensim minora; rachis fUsca, fibrillosa, sulcata; pinnae 6 " longae, infra 2" latae, 
rachi marginata et pinnulis alternantibus, quarum infima in latere superiore 
exsistit ; pinnulae 1 " longae, latae, in segmenta petiolulata divisae, quorum 
superiora simplicia, inferiora tri — quadri-fida ; segmenta ultima acuminata, ^ — 5" 
longa, H" sive minus lata, petiolis angustioribus ; sterilium segmenta obtusa ; 
sori abundantes, laterales, breves, depressi, singuli prope basin ultimi cuiusque 
segmenti ; involucre scariosum, basi ac lateribus adfixum. Filix pulchra, una 
ex maximis atque elegantissimis Dareis, sori autem davallioidei, qua de causa 
primo a me est descripta ut Davallia ( Loxoscaphe ) Hollandii in Trans. S. A. 
Phil. Soc. Vol. xvi. 3. 274, Aug. 1906. 
Rhodesia, prope Umtali (Plolland, Mrs Bennett) ; ad flumen Gwaai (J. Sim). 
Cultura admodum digna. 
