584 FILLCES. [Doodya. 
14. DOODYA*, R. Br. 
Sori short oblong or ete curved, placed severally in one or more 
rows parallel with and between the midrib and margins of the pinnae. 
Invol. membranous, of aie same shape as the sorus and opening toward 
the midrib. Veins forming one or more series of arches between the 
midrib and edge, on which the sori are placed. — Low ferns, with a short 
x etn caudex and pinnate or pinnatifid, te comers -dentate, harsh fronds. 
_ oie sagieeaincs ire — (in 
A small gen ld of Polynesia and Australasia 
¢. finet 
2 
em odis, R. Br. Prod. Nov. Holl. p. 151. — Caudex short, suberect. 
Stip. tufted, 5—10‘ long, rough, dull stramineous but quite dark below, 
scantily olotiea throughout with stiff linear denticulate blackish scales 
or fibrils. Frond dark-green, scabrous, lanceolate, 12—18/ X 2—5‘, nar- 
rowing below, with 30—50 pairs of spreading segments, pinnatifid above 
segments gradually confluent in a subentire apex, pinnate below, 
ut the middle 
and more distant. Veins rear with 1 or 2, rarely 3 series of arches. 
Sori oblong (about 1”), in 1 or 2 rows, rarely with an incomplete third 
one, the inner row at some aa from the rib. Veins of the upper 
pinnae catadromous, the first lower veinlet rising from the rhachis or 
e adnate eeading face of the midrib. Sporangium sharply curved at 
; res su ose. 
one or two smaller dorsal ones. — Hook. Sp. Fil. III, 74, and Synops. Fil. 
p- 190. — D. Kunthiana, Gaud. Bot. Freyc. p. 401, tab. 14. — Hook. & Arn. 
Bot. Heed, p. 107. — Brack. Fil. U. 8. E. E. p. 187. — D. caudata, var. 
media, Benth. Fl. Austral. VII, 742. 
Not uncommon on all isla: net Frequent in Makaleha valley, Oahu! — Nat. name: 
«Pamoho». The species occurs also in N. and E, Australia and in N. Zealand. 
15. ASPLENIUM, L. 
Sori lateral to the vein, linear and generally straight, or less commonly 
short and curved, single on the anterior side of the vein, or (in Diplazium) 
double on the first anterior or primary veinlet, one on each side of it, 
or (in Athyrium) curved, uncinate, kidney- or horeshoe-shaped on a 
ption of Doodya and its species was missing in the final manuscript left 
here given was taken from an older draft of the manuscript, and et Pint poms 
not in “ . rue awe oa no e author would have chosen had he nie to supply t 
