ASPLENIUM LAN CEO LATUM. 
Lanceolate Spleemvort .— Hudson 
Fronds lanceolate, rigid, glabrous, bi-pinnate, 
pinnae, ovate-lanceolate; pinnules ovate or obliquely 
ovate, blunt, lobed or toothed; the teetb coarse, 
angular, mucronate; rachis with slightly elevated 
margins in front, not winged, minutely scaly; sori 
short oblong, borne near tbe margin. 
Caudex perennial, short, stoutish, erect, or decam- 
bent, tufted, densely scaly, with elongately subulate 
shining brown cellulosely-striate scales, and having 
stout branched roots. Vernation circinate. Stipes 
one-third or more of the length of the frond, dark 
chestnut-coloured below, this color extending along 
the back of the rachis, sparingly scaly ; terminal and 
adherent to the caudex; rachis with a slightly ele¬ 
vated margin in front, and having few slender jointed 
hairs ; the partial rachides winged and furnished with 
similar hairs. Fronds 3-12, occasionally 18 inches 
high, rigid, bright green, smooth, erect or spreading, 
lanceolate, bipinnate. Pinnae narrowing from the 
base to the point, sometimes deflexed, scarcely stalked, 
sub-opposite or alternative; lower ones more distant 
