556 FILICES. [ Polypodium. 
ceolate scales which end in a single row of cells, the last cell transformed 
into a clavate or subglobose resinous gland. Stip. slender filiform, dark 
brown, !/2—1‘, closely crowde Frond thin membraneous, linear, 2—5 
x 2—4", obtuse, gradually aitowtinto toward the base, pubescent with 
stipitate and sessile glistening yellow glands, pinnate, the rhachis weak 
flexuose and dark. Pinnae seri in outline, cut more or less deeply 
into 2—10 obtuse triangular or obovate segments. Veins one to a segment. 
Sori large, on the Aca ends of the veins, 1—5 to a Agee Para- 
physes pale yellow. — Sp. Fil. IV, 228. — Syn Fil. p. 337. — Metten. 
yno 
Polyp. p. 31. — Adenophorus hymenophylloides, aaa & Gr. . eh tab. 176. 
— A. minutus, Gaud. in Bot. Freye. p. 365. tab. 8. — Amphoradenium 
minutum, Desv. 
Rare, on trees at elevations of 3000—5000 ft.: Oahu! Konahuanui; Maui! Eeka; 
Hawaii! Kohala range, and elsewhere. Nat. name: «Pai». 
9. P. tamariscinum, Kaulf. 1. c. p. 117. — Rhizome creeping, 1” 
thick, covered with dark brown shining lanceolate scales which end 
in a clavate terminal gland and often bear a few smaller ones on their 
margins. Stip. at sedge of 2—3", brown, stiff, slightly marginate, 
Fro dry, pu- 
1—4’, nd chartaceous, opaque, dark-green, brownish when 
bescent with minute oie essed hainle ts and resinous in the same manner 
as the preceding species, elliptico-lanceolate, 4—15‘ « 1—3‘, broadest 
at the middle, often caudate, gradually narrowing below, bipinnate. 
Pinnae close, 25—30 on a side, lanceolate, broadest at the base, subsessile. 
Pinnules 10—16 on a side, linear-spathulate, obtuse, the lowest 2—3” long 
and less than ni broad. Sori’one to a pinnule, at the swollen end of 
the solitary vein. Paraphyses reddish-brown, thick clavate, mostly curv- 
ed. — Sp. Fil. IV, 228. — Synops. Fil. p. 338. — Metten. Polyp. p. 31. — 
Adenophoru:s 
Gaud. Bot. Freye. p. 365, teh: 8. — Fée, Gen. Fil. p. 99, tab. 10. 
petit He Desv 
trees and on the ground. Nat. name: «W: 1 (the mistress 
of the mountain). — Is reported also as a nat diy of Tahiti, Samoa, Java and Sumatra, 
but neither Guillemin in the Zephyr. Taitens. nor Nadéand in his Enum. Pl. Tah. mentions 
it, and its presence in Jaya rests upon the authority of Teschemaker. Carruthers 
Seeman’s Flora Vitiens. only knows it as coming from the Hawaiian Islds 
2 var. tripinnatifidum. — One or more, sometimes all ieee again 
pinnatifid with rather acute segments, the lowest ones much the largest, 
5—6” long with 5—10 segments. — Sp. Fil. 1. e. — Adenoph. tripinnatifidus, 
aud. Bot. Freye. tab. 8. — Metten. Polyp. p. 32. — A mphoradenium 
Gaudichaudii, Desy. 
Hawaii! Kohala range; Kauai! Halemanu; Maui! Haleakala (6000 ft.). 
{~ var. montanum. — Rhizome shorter. Stip. more crowded and shorter. 
Frond dark brown, fragile, narrower and smaller, 2—5'’ >< 1/2 —1', ¢o 
piously dotted with resinous glands and viscid, the rhachis sometimes bifid, 
