554 FILICES. {Polypodium. 
Baker refers to our species need to be reexamined as to capsules and position of sori, so 
also the Javanese P. setigerum, Bl., with which Luerssen has reunited all these forms in 
Fil. Graeffeanae, p. 102. 
. P, Samoense, Baker, Synops. Fil. p. 321. — Var. glabra. — Rhizome 
ais scales as before. Frond subcoriaceous, pale, bao glabrous, linear- 
lanceolate, 3—7‘ > 1/s—1/2‘, obtuse, entire, with wavy margin, gradually 
narrowing into a short dull darkish puberulous or naked stipes, the costa 
green. Veins obscure, simple, or forking at open angles into two or three 
branches, all ending in punctiform apices. Sori apical on the simple, 
subapical on branching veinlets, sometimes on two of the same group, 
large, round or oblong, in a single row near the margin. Receptacle 
always easly tan and spores as in P. Hookeri. — Teen, in 
ora, 1875, 
Kauai, on the ae — of ance sade aes ft. gays: = Sage 5000 ft. 
‘(Knudsen, Baldwin). — Occ also on Sam — In referring, as does Luerssen, our plant 
to the above species it snake to be stated ‘hs at Ba i, s pei soe does pr make mention 
of the rangia nor of the elongate receptacle, which latter would assign to nt 
a fair place in the subsection Grammitis close connexion will Hookeri through 
, and ite i ed as a treme vari me, not- 
the evide ould iety of the sa 
withstan ing the great diversity in position of sori as compared with the thin-leaved form 
+7 Adenophori. — Clavate, stipitate, resinous glands on the frond and 
similar paraphyses in the sori. Nos. 5—10 
5. P. Haalilioanum, Brack. l. c. p. 5, pl. 1. — Stip. in short tufts which 
rise at considerable distances from root-like wiry proliferous surculi. 
Scales few, short, lanceolate, rather obtuse, light brown. Fronds charta- 
ceous, naked, ip: linear-lanceolate, 2—4‘>< 2—3”, rather obtuse, narrowing 
below into the w stem, either sinuato-crenate throughout, or sub- 
a 
those of the middle once or twice forking, with obtuse apices. Sori apical 
on the simple veins or the short anterior branches of forking veins, in 
two rows midway between rib and edge. Sporangia not setose, intermixed 
with few thick clavate reddish paraphyses. — P. subpinnatifidum, Hook. 
Sp. Fil. IV, 177. — Synops. Fil. p. 324. — Mann, Enum. no 
On moss-covered trees, not common, Oahu! Konahuanui 
fern. It has long ferruginous hairs, dorsal sori which are pe iajcon ong aa imp shim 
and a ng to Mettenius (Polyp. p. 39) setose sporongia, while 
makes no mention of paraphyses or glands — all characters wnich “assign ita pine in 
the group Chaetothecae. 
6. P. sarmentosum, Brack. 1. ¢. p. 8, pl. 2. -—- Rhizomes more devel 
oped than in the former species, sometimes '/2’ long, rising at distances 
of 1—4 inches from filiform root-like naked surculi. Scales pale 
hor 
