Vittaria.] FILICES. 551 
long, ovate-lanceolate, chartaceous, olive-green, shortly pubescent under- 
neath with white hairlets which consist of a single row of 3—7 cells, 
pinnate with a terminal pinna, or bipinnate. Pinnae cen on a side, mostly 
opposite, stipitate, ovate-oblong to lanceolate, 6—9' X 11/2—2', short 
acuminate, often caudate, finely serrate with gpegbies cartilaginous teeth, 
obtuse, even rounded at the base, the lower 1, 2 or 3 pinnae often again 
pinnatifid or pinnate with 1—3 pairs of Reon Veins close and pa- 
rallel, subhorizontal, generally twice forking, all ending at the bases of 
the teeth with a clavate apex, in rare instances 2 branchlets ane rrapripest 
Sori linear, on all veins and their branches, but stopping a space short 
of the edge. Annulus with 13 joints. Spores tetraedrous. — Gus age 
horeshoe-shaped fib. vas. fascicle in the stipes. — Nervatio inter Taeniopt. 
et Neuropt. — Hook. Sp. Fil. V, 145. — Synops. Fil. p. 381. — Metten 
Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 40. — Coniogramme Javanica, Fée. — G. pies: Bick, 
ee 
awaii! Maui! Kauai! at altitudes of 3000—5000 ft. — Nat. name: »Loulu». — Is 
hae also in the Viti group, jae. Malaysia, India and tropical prore 
7. VITTARIA, Sm. 
Sori linear, continuous, on a marginal or intramarginal vein or receptacle 
which connects the pinnate veins, either lying in a 2-lipped groove at 
the very margin of the frond, or near the margin a and parallel with it on 
the under side, and then more superficial. Grasslike ferns, with simple, 
linear, distinctly or scarcely costate fronds. Tro ical, 
1. V. elongata, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 199. — Rhizome thick and short, creeping, 
its scales dark, linear-subulate from a suborbicular base, 1'/2” long, faleate, 
finely areolate in transparent meshes with black thickened walls, the 
flexuous margin dentate with patent teeth. Fronds closely set, thick 
chartaceous, opaque, linear or falcate, 12—20' < 2—4”, acuminate, entire, 
gradually contracting below into the short margined stipes. Midrib stint 
throughont or evanescent above. Veins obscure, very oblique, at distance 
Of. tf." coir straight and parallel. Sori sunk in a deep m eal 
groove with two nearly equal lips, opening outwards. Sporangia with 
16—18 joints, intermixed with numerous clavate or lageniform gig 
Spores oblong-reniform, pale. Fib. vas. fase. 2. — Synops. Fil. p. 395 
ok. ibid. 
Freye. p. 382. — Compare also peti Fil. raeff. ie WI 
Nat. n — This pages £ tral 
sorus 
from it en in the thicker and somewhat pak a 
coinage of the frond, so as to jet nstitute an ademas 
Y spread over Polynesia, Australia, India and tropical 
