570 ; FILICES. [Aspidium. 
faleate, 4—5‘ & 1'/2—3'/2‘, finely, often ec om — rounded at the 
base, with the upper half dilating into an obtuse or acute e or auricle; 
the two or more lowest pinnae biauriculate, ne ue aN one tricuspid, 
imary veins scarcely algae straight, with a single series of 5 or 
6 oblique areoles between them, each areal with 1, 2 or 3 free acute 
veinlets or rays. Sort copious ae large, dorsal on nearly every free 
veinlet. Invol. peltate, umbonate, thin, flat. Ring of sporangium with 
16 joints or less. — Brack. |. c. p. 184. — Hook. & Gr. Ic. Fil. tab. 69. 
— Cyrtomium caryotideum, Presl, Tent. Pterid. tab. 2, fig. 26. — Metten. 
rte p. 35.—<A. faleatum, var. caryotideum, Baker, in Synops. Fil. p. 257. 
times rg? inferior border of the lowest pinnae is irr egularly notched into a few 
one specim e ah 
sone - Miggestpea Sw., a nati < OF China at rete in which all pinnae are entire, without 
On the Hawaiian I h tra sition has been observ ed, and besides _— 
poe an additional d th 
enia, Presl. — Involucre cordate or reniform. Veins anastomosing 
copiously and irregularly, usually with free included veinlets, the areoles 
along the rib and main veins elongate. Frond cyatheoid, with ample 
pinnae and segments. 
5. A. apiifolium, Schiuhr, Fil. Germ. p. 128, tab. 36 B. — Caudex thick, 
prostrate. Stip. crowded, 1 ft. or more long, deep mahogany-brown or purple, 
glossy, with a few stiff and dark lanceolate scales (1/2’) at the base, otherwise 
naked. Frond deltoid, 1—4 ft. long and as broad, dark green, membranous, 
the apex deeply pinnatifid with sinuate lanceolate lobes which are separate 
by broad angular sinuses, the broad wing on each side receiving a secon: 
dary nerve from the rhachis; below “or 2—6 nearly opposite pairs of 
innae. Lowest pinnae stipitate, deltoid, 4—16‘ broad at the base, — the 
lower half much the largest — eee in the smaller forms, pinnate 
with several stipitate wraiilea in the larger ones, the largest pinnules 
number of faintly marked irregular areoles with few or 10 
free veinlets. Sori large, in two nearly regular lines, about halfway be 
lc. p. 182. — Metten. Aspid. p. 120. — Nephrodium apiifolium, Hoo Kk. & 
Arn. in Bot. Beech. — A. sinuatum, Gaud. in Bot. Freye. — Micro brochys 
apuifolia, Agel Epimel. p. 52. — Nephrod. cui var, apiifolium, 
Hook. in Sp. Fil. IV, 49, and Synops. Fil. p. 
in the lower aie and gulches. Nat. name: «Iwaiwa lau nui». 
