588 FILICES. [Asplenium. 
with a punctiform apex, flabellate without or with a leading vein, which 
verges toward the upper and outer angle but disappears about the middle. 
vb tea one on the first lower vein, parallel and close to the lower 
not unfrequently more, the others oblique. Invol. pale and 
i of the single or lowest sorus (rarely a second one) opening 
‘hier’ those of the upper, when present, downward. — Brack. 1. c. 
p. 151, pl. 20, fig. 2. — A. Menziesii, Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. tab. 100, the 
plurisorous form, in which the lowest sorus is a the largest. 
E. Maui! on Haleakala from 3000—6000 ft.; W. Maui! Kauai! 
Occurs also in the Azores, Madeira, the Canaries, in Abyssinia and S. Africa and on 
the American Andes from Mexico to Chile, ce sap associated with pat forms of 
A. orhesthertg — The _ mmae on the rhachis also observed occasionally in plants 
fro: adeir e lower gemmae — peor int fronds OF the size of the mother 
coer wha remain cintamen with i 
normale, Don, Prod. Fl. Nepal. p. 7. — Caudex as before. Stip. 
phiek: ehencous nilinieed, stiff, naked, 4—5‘ long. Frond subCONIACEDIG, 
opaque, dark-green, fuscescent when dry, linear-lanceolate, 8—12‘ >< 1— + 
pinnate, tachi not margined and frequently proliferous. Pinnae 
30—40 on aside, close, all uniform, the lower ones deflected but neither 
in the upper row, on the anterior branches of forking veins and therefore 
at a distance from the rib. Invol. pale, broad and rather obtuse at both 
ends. — A. pavonicum, Brack. 1. c. p. 150, pl. 20. — A. multijugum, Wall. — 
Hook. Sp. Fil. III, p. 139. tab. 188. 
mm is remarkable for ae neciprmsgers to produce gemmae. I have one specimen 
the 
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with 11 young plants starting rhachis, all frondlets soriferous and with pinnae 
cut exactly as in A. monan Prestcrg several of them with a single prea along the 
lower 
edge. 
Less rare than the preceding species, to which it is closely related. Oahu! Nuuant; 
peers and probably elsewhere. — Occurs also in Hindostan, Ceylon and southern 
Cee pinnate with 15—30 pinnae on each oo pee patent, L/2—3’; 
X< '/2—4/«", stipitate at the lower angle, dimidiato-oblong or lanceolate, oné 
half or more of the lower side being cut away, obtuse or somewhat acute, 
