Aspidium.| FILICES. 569 
Haleakalense, Brack. in Fil. U. S. E. E. p. 204, pl. 28. — Sporangia 
globose, with a ring of about 20 joints. Spores ovoid, runcinate. Fib. 
vas. seared 3 
Rare Mauna Loa (Mann), Mauna Kea (Brack.); pong vara Piste and 
crater of Haleakala (Lydg. and Baldw.) at heights of 6000— name: 
foun A. ri ae a Wall., from the higher Saiday ice whe’ to be a simply ae 
State of it. 
3. A. aristatum, Sw. var. coniifolium, Wall. — Hook. Sp. Fil. IV, 27. —- 
ia “eas rooting. Stip. at short intervals of 2—4”, rather slender, 
is g, rown or stramineous, glossy, clothed below wi 
large is ee long-acuminate (1—1!/2‘) pale diaphanous scales, 
with matted deciduous fibrils above. Frond dark-green, thin chartaceous, 
deltoid-ovate, gradually acuminate, 1'/2—3 ft. long and 1'/4—21/2 ft. broad 
below, with a fibrillose, soon et rate rhachis, open, quadripinnate. Pinnae 
(at least 9—10 bipinnate ones on a side) ovate-lanceolate, ascending; the 
basal ones on stipites of 6— Oe very broad, 12—14' X 6 — 7’, their lower 
half much the broadest, with its first pinnule twice the size of the first 
upper one, but not deflected. Ultimate pinnules stipitate, rhomboidal, 
about 6” long, with cuneate base and 3—5 sharply awned serratures or 
lobes on each side, besides the oa apex. Sori 5—7 to a pinnule, in 
two rows between midrib and edges. Veins specu Invol. dark, thin an 
flat, peltate, pa al occasionally slit on one side. Ring of sporangia 
ith 18—22 articulations. — Synops. Fil. p. 255. — A. coniifolium, Wall., 
Metten, Aspid. p. 67. — Pivdce and Wallich, in Catalogue of Ceylon Ferns. 
ported from the Hawaiian Islds. High ridge of Lanai! W. Maui above 
n Ceylo 
separa a spec 3) drieiotea, which has a creepin 
rhizome. In our plant the pedis is intermediate mes both. 
B. Cyrtomium, Presi. — Involucre eee Veins anastomosing, the 
secondary branches of parallel veins uniting to form series of obliquely 
oblong areoles with free veinlets. Nervatio econo 
AA. ade Wall. — Hook. Sp. Fil. IV, 40. — Caudex short, 
prostrate, rooting. Stip. crowded, 6—12‘ long, stramineous, scantily clothed 
With ovate or sc eolate (2—3“) dentate scales, dark and opaque at the 
base of the stipes, pale and transparent higher up and soon eaducous. 
4 
5—7‘, pinnate with a terminal pinna, polystichoid, the rhachis scantily 
fibrillose. Pinnae 3—9 on a side, stipitate, broadly ovate- -lanceolate, 
