578  RoBINSON: PTERIDOPHYTA OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Hawaii, Wilkes Expedition N; Maui, 
Bailey 41 C; Oahu, Hitchcock C; Lichtenthaler N; Mann & Brigham 
N; Remy 241 B; Robinson V; Safford 880 N; Kauai, Forbes 306 BM; 
Heller 2479 C, N; Hawaiian Islands, Baldwin 14 B, C; Moore C; 
Miss Sessions C; Wilkes Expedition 5 B. 
SPECIES INQUIRENDA 
Adiantum Bennettit Carruth. in Seeman, Fl. Vit. 346. 1873 
Hillebrand states that a specimen of this plant collected by 
Lieut. Strickland is in the herbarium of the British Museum, but 
it cannot be found there at the present time (1911). 
7- HYPOLEPIS Bernh. Neues Jour. Bot. Schrad. 17: 34. 
1806 
Rootstock slender, wide-creeping; leaves pinnate to quadri- 
pinnate, herbaceous, hairy; leafstalk not articulate; veins free; 
sori borne in the sinuses of the segments; indusium formed by the 
small reflexed marginal lobe of the leaf. 
Type species: Lonchitis tenutfolia Forst. 
Leaf blade quadripinnate; petiole brownish at base, stramineous a 
intervals on rootstock between leaves about 12 cm. H. punctate. 
Leaf blade bipinnate; leafstalk purplish red; intervals on rootstock between 
leaves 4-6 cm H. flaccida. 
HyPoLepis punctata (Thunb.) Mett. in Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 120. 
: 1868 
Polypodium punctatum Thunb. FI. Jap. 337. 1784. Not Swartz. 
Polypodium Paepigii Kunze; Klotzsch, Linnaea 9: 50. 1834. 
Phegopteris punctata Mett. Ann. Lugd. Bat. 1: 222. 1864. 
Phegopteris punctata var. glabra Hilleb. Fl. Haw. Is. 562. 1888. 
Hypolepis tenuifolia Underw. in Heller, Minn. Bot. Stud. 1: 782- 
1897. 
Nephrodium punctatum Diels in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 14: 177. 1899- 
TYPE LOCALITY: Japan. 
DISTRIBUTION: Japan, China, Stiles Polynesia, Australia, 
New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Heller 2778 C. 
H. tenuifolia (Forst.) Bernh. and H. punctata Mett. may be 
synonyms, though the term ‘‘arborescens”’ in Forster’s original 
