FLORA VITIENSIS. 375 
This species was originally, and has been nearly all along, confounded with Linnæus's Acrostichum 
spicatum, from Bourbon. The primary veins in the Bourbon plants are strong and well marked, while in 
that from the islands of Eastern Asia and Polynesia the veins are uniform. 
LI. Chrysodium, Fée, Hist. Acrost. p. 22. Sporangia paginam totam inferiorum pinnarum 
frondis fertilis tegentia, in soros superficiales aggregata. Venge anastomosantes.—Filices rhizomate 
vix repente, crasso; frondibus monotaxibus pinnatis, pinnis superioribus soriferis. 
1. C.aureum, Мей. Fil. Lips. p. 21; rhizomate crasso; stipitibus lævibus nudis sulcatis ; 
frondibus pinnatis, rigidis; pinnis sterilibus, lanceolatis v. oblongo-ligulatis, plus minusve angustis, 
apice acuminatis v. obtusis, margine integris, paululum revolutis; fertilibus angustioribus.— Acro- 
slichum aureum, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1068.—Viti (Seemann! n, 709; Harvey! M'Gillivray ! Milne! 
Sir E. Home!). Also from New Caledonia (Strange!), Tahiti (Banks and Solander!), Raiatea 
(Collie !), Aneitum, New Hebrides (M'Gillivray !), and Upolu, Navigators’ Islands (Sir E. Home !). 
5свокро ПІ, OSMUNDACEÆ. 
LII. Todea, Willd. Act. Acad. Erford. 1802, p. 14. t. 3. f. 1. Sporangia obovato-globosa, 
pedicellata, dorso annulo obsoleto transversali gibbosa, longitudinaliter dehiscentia, venis simplicibus 
v. furcatis imposita, in soros oblongos ad venas paging inferioris collecta. Venæ simplices v. fur- 
cate, venulis liberis.—Filices caudice erecto, frondibus coriaceis v. pellucido-membranaceis, bipin- 
natis, pinnis articulatis. 
1. T. Wilkesiana, Brack. U.S. Expl. Exped. Filices, р. 309. t. 43; caudice erecto ; stipitibus 
levibus, semiteretibus, antice suleatis; frondibus membranaceis, glabris, bipinnatis; pinnis sessili- 
bus, oblongo-lanceolatis, inferioribus deflexis; rachibus pilosis, alatis; pinnulis oblongis, obtusis, 
dentatis, basi oblique cuneatis, pellucido-punctatis.—Viti (Seemann! n. 787; M'Gillivray ! U.S. 
Expl. Exped.). 
Зововро IV. SCHIZÆACEÆ. 
LIII. Schizæa, Smith, Act. Turin. 1790-91, p. 419. Sporangia subsessilia, ovata, annulo 
apicali completo transverso instructa, pagina inferiori appendicium fertilium pinnæformium adnata. 
Venæ simplices v. flabellato-dichotomæ, liberæ.—Filices rhizomate repente, frondibus simplicibus 
v. repetito-dichotomis v. flabellatis.— Ripidium, Bernh. Schrad. Journ. 1800, vol. ii. p. 127. Actino- 
stachys, Wall. Cat. n. 1. | 
The following have also been found in tropical Polynesia :—1. S. fistulosa, Labill. Fl. Nov. Holl. 
vol. ii. p. 108. t. 250. f. 8, from New Caledonia (Vieillard). 2. 8. bifida, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. v. p. 87, from 
New Caledonia (Vieillard). 8. S. robusta, Baker, Syn. Fil. p. 429, from Sandwich Islands (Hillebrand). 
4. 8. levigata, Мей. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4. vol. xv. p. 85, from New Caledonia (Sinclair! Vieillard), and 
Isle of Pines (Milne 1). 5. 8. intermedia, Mett. 1. с. p. 86, from New Caledonia (Vieillard). 
1. S. dichotoma, Smith, Act. Turin. 1790-91, p. 419 (excl. fig.); rhizomate repente, piloso ; 
stipitibus basi semiteretibus, supra sulcatis, submarginatis; frondibus subflabelliformibus, repetitim 
dichotomis, segmentis linearibus, compressis, coriaceis, medio costatis, plus minusve asperis, apice 
soriferis; appendicibus soriferis recurvatis, pinnatis; pinnis 10-20 paribus dispositis, oppositis, linea- 
ribus, ultime brevioribus.—Acrostichum dichotomum, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1068 (fide spec. in Herb. 
Petiver.).—Viti (Harvey! Græffe! Milne! U. S. Expl. Exped.). Also from Samoan Islands 
(D. Nelson !), i 
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