TAB. CCXVII. 
ASPLENIUM MACREI. 
FILICES.—G*rnaArz. Br. PorvropiACEsX. Kaulf. | Firiczs vere. Willd., Spreng. 
GEN. Cgan. JA4SPLENIUM, Linn. Sori lineares, sparsi, dorsales. —Znvolucrum e vena latera- 
liter ortum ducens, margine superiore libero. 2. 
ASPLENIUM JMacrai ; fronde lanceolata bipinnata, pinnulis omnibus cuneatis integris vel emarginatis 
inferioribus majoribus 3—4-fidis, laciniis integris vel retusis, rachibus universalibus superne 
marginatis partialibus lato-alatis, soris plerisque solitariis. 
Has. Whoohahoo, Insulis Sandvicensibus. JMacrae. 
Stipes tripollicaris, erectus, glaber, nitidiusculus, hinc sulcatus. 
Frons spithameea, circumscriptione lato-lanceolata, bipinnata; pinnis plerisque alternis, omnibus horizontalibus, 
inferioribus circumscriptione cordato-ovatis, reliquis ovato-lanceolatis, subpetiolatis, sesquiunciam ad duas 
uncias longis; pinnulis cuneatis, subsemiunciam longis, tenui-membranaceis, glabris, costatis, integerrimis vel 
emarginatis, superioribus sensim minoribus angustioribusque, omnino integerrimis, inferioribus majoribus, 
lato-cuneatis, tri-quinquefidis, segmentis obtusis vel retusis. .Rachis primaria superne anguste marginata ; 
secundaria lato-alata. 
Sori oblongi, in pinnulis superioribus solitarii, inferioribus plerumque tres. 
Involucrum oblongum, membranaceum, nunc paululum incurvatum. 
Capsule globosse, annulo lato cinctze, longe pedicellatae. 
Semina subglobosa, intense fusca, sublimbata. 
Fig. 1. Portio frondis fertilis. f. 2. Pinnula inferior. f. 3. Capsule. f. 4. Semina:—magn. auct. 
On the first aspect of this plant, it certainly bears a very considerable resemblance to the Cizno- 
pteris rhizophylla, figured at 'T'AB. 193 of this work; and it is not easy in words to describe the 
essential differences. When they are minutely compared, however, it will be found that our present 
plant is of a much more delicate and membranaceous texture; that the pinnules are much broader 
and more cuneate; and that the fructifications are more distant from the margin, and hence 
possessing less of that character which has been considered to constitute the genus Cenopteris of 
Bergius, Dar«a of Jussieu. 
