Asplenium.| FILICES. 595 
Ceylon, from — ep eine die r, our plant differs in be great number and close 
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approach it very closely. — Soriferous ‘‘ <n young plants have a very different 
appearance, showing 6—8 decurrent, mostly peels pairs of pinnae and a large terminal 
one half as long again or longer 
*, dareoides. — Fronds of the same texture, color and outline, but 
) in size, fi long, on slender stipites of 8—12’. Pinnae 
15—20 on each side, linear-lanceolate, 3 long, 1/2—%/4‘ broad, pinna 
tifid near the apex, but otherwise deeply cut, nearly to the rhachis, into 
numerous suberect and falcate, oblong and cuneate segments, which are 
entire or 2-, 3- or 4-toothed at the truncate apex, the largest ones se- 
parated by bods sinuses or intervals; the first upper segment parallel 
or inclined to the rhachis and not shorter than those following; the first 
lower nearly opposite the second upper. Sori single and then marginal, 
4—6" long or 2—4 to a segment. — Scales small as ina, 2’ long. A small 
Specimen in my collection, which has the pinnae simply serrate in the 
outer portion and segmented only near the base, removes all doubt con- 
cerning the relation of this form to a. 
Oahu! Kaala, on the ridges of Makaleha valley. 
var.? Kauaiense. — Frond larger, 20’ long, fleshy but flaccid, dark- 
green, with a flat compressed rhachis and 16—22 pinnae on a side, ending 
with a smaller terminal one. Pinnae patent, close, quite narrow, the 
longest 5—7‘ < 5—7", entire or faintly denticulate, the upper base 
receding from the rhachis with an obtuse or rounded angle. Veins epee’ 
once forking close to the base; the sori on the antetior branches, 3—1!/2“ 
iad never reaching midrib or edge, most of them very short and not 
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Kauai! (Kn. 103). 
8 var. gemmiparum. — Texture thinner and the pinnae finely serrulate, 
otherwise entirely as in ;. Numerous gemmae (2—4 to a pinna) on the 
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2—3“ long, and bearing two frondlets with stipes of 1—11/2’ and a cuneate- 
‘ovate entire but a lamina of nearly the same length. 
Kauai! (Kn. 104 
. A. bipinnatum, Hillebr. — Stipes stout, 26‘ long, green, with a few 
lanceolate scales (3—4” long) at the base, and slightly furfuraceous above. 
Frond dark-green, glossy, rather fleshy, oblong, 20‘ in length, bipinnate 
with about 15 pinnae on a side, the lowest as long as the next or slightly 
longer, about 7’, the dopednon ones gradually decreasing to the apex 
and pinnatisect ton ntire. Rhachis angular, slightly margined near the 
apex. Pinnae ovate-lanceolate in outline — the first upper pinnule longer, 
but the first lower shorter than the next one —, patent, on nee of 
