Aspidium. | FILICES. 571 
B var. pubescens. — Frond smaller, ovate, the lowest pinnae not ex- 
eeding the next ones; the rhachis, ribs and margins of the frond shortly 
pubescent. Pinnae and segments obtuse. 
Southern slope of scape Ma 
In all my specimens the es is as above perro. while the American plants of 
A. cicutarium, Sw., have it Fae stramineous, and since the elimination of the truly 
distinct A. simulans, ser sist I believe there remain i 
the Asiatic and African representatives of that species. It seems to u | a 
Schkuhr’s gone plan derived from the Hawaiian Islands, but all the other quotations 
refer to our plan 
D. Nephrodium, Schott. — Involucre cordate or reniform. Veinlets 
simple and straight, in less divided pinnae the lower Lean Peel ones 
of contiguous groups uniting to form a single ra spurio stule 
which runs out at the sinus (nervatio Gonos in peepee divided 
Rais with 16—18 ring-joints. Spores bi- 
the base of the ae 2 lateral oblong fib. vas. 
a tendency to opposition in the median pinnae and secondary tertiar 
nerves. (Character modified.) — Lastrea § 1 Dryopteris, Presl. 
6. A. cyatheoides, Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p.234. — Caudex short and stout, erect 
or prostrate. Stip. 11/2—2 ft. long, stout, deeply grooved, dark stramineous, 
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pitate terminal pinna, rarely proliferous near the apex. Pinnae 18—26 
on a side, closely set, Tigtiecutel, linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 6—15‘ 
x ja—14fa' , very shortly stipitate, with an even-sided truncate or cordate 
base, the margin crenate or coarsely serrate into numerous (60—90) rather 
obtuse, forward pointing teeth or lobules. Primary veins almost perpen- 
cular to the midrib, pinnate with 10—12 distinct veinlets on each side, 
7-10 uniting with the corresponding ones of the next groups. Sori dark 
one at the base of each yeinlet, forming two straight lines parallel with 
and contiguous to the costule, confluent with age. Invol. cordate, with 
narrow sinus, fugacious, dark, entire. — Metten. Aspid. p. 110. — Nephrodium 
cyatheoides, Presl, Tent. Pterid. tab. 2, fig. 5. — Sp. Fil. 1V, 76, tab. 241. 
Fil. p. 293. — Polystichum Dubreuilleanum, Gaud. in Bot. 
— Synops. 
Freye. p. 333, tab. 9. — Nephrodium Dubreuilleanum, H Hook & Arn. Bot. 
Beech. p. 105. 
Common in ae lower woods and gulches; = «Kikawaeo» of the png who eat the 
young shoo vegetable, cooked with meat and taro. — The fern mbles greatly 
the Malayan Py feroz, Bl., which has a rough and hairy stipes and mare Occasionally 
only the lowest f veinle sori, i ¢ pinna has only tw 
0 closely contiguous to the midrib, wi ps a few sori sprinkled irregularly 
over the sid 2—4 lowest pinnae are anadromous, then follow 1—3 op Di 
er- 
es. The 
With homodromous bases, W e rest are Catadromous 
while 
tiary veins catadromous from the base 
