Asplenium.| FILICES. 597 
lanceolate, with cuneate base, 1—1%/4‘  2—21/2, cut to the middle or 
more into linear- or cuneate-oblong subtruncate ascending lobes; the 
superior basal pinnule shorter than the one or two next following and 
less deeply cut; the inferior basal at half the distance between the first 
and second upper. Veins faint, at angles of 20°, simple or forking at 
the middle. Sori dareoid, one to a segment, 1—1!/2“ long. Invol. thin. 
— Seales 5—6” long. 
Oahu! Wailupe. Only one tank und. — On first sight it would appear to be a 
reduced or less compound form of the aon Polynesian o multifidum, Brack., a species 
which has been connected with the New Zealand and Australian A. bulbiferum, Forst 
by Luerssen. A. multifidum differs, howev y in its much ampler size but also 
rssen, er, not only its 
in the paleaceous rhachis suiis the upper basal pinnules, hag are the ca ag val we 
2 or 3 long spreading lathe: 
A small frond which rises from a short aa spur of the at ae is bipinnate, with 
Very distant obovate pinnules, which are dentate at the rounded apex, and in the lowest 
pinnae of a larger frond some of the as are of the same on ton 
Group of A. pseudofaleatum. Nos, 15—18. 
Rhizome short and thick, prostrate but scarcely creeping, sparingly paleaceous with 
narrow hated blackish lustreless scales of 2—4“ in length. Stipites crowded, green 
when fresh, grayish or of a livid lead-color when dry. Fronds polystichoid, dull-green, 
whi ick 
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‘oduce a single scone on the main or econdary Seactiias below the 
15. A, pseudofalcatum, sp. ”. — poe crowded, 6--18' sa aia 
paleaceous only at the base, the scales 2—4” in length. Frond 9—18' 
long, oblong-lanceolate, chartaceous to coriaceous and brittle, pinnate, the 
rhachis often gemmiferous near the apex. Pinnae 12—20 on each side, 
Pa stipitate (2‘’), rhomboido-ovate to obliquely ovato-lanceolate, 
—6 & §/4—TJ2', rather obtuse or acute, bluntly and remotely serrate 
or serrato-incised, abscisso-truncate at the base; the upper half parallel to 
the rhachis, or even overlapping it, and rounded off, the auricle often 
detached as a broad obovate segment. Veins opaque, at angles of 10 —45° 
the narrower, of 10—60° in the broader pinnae, subpinnate in the 
P 
trunk from midrib to edge, 6—12/ long and 11/2—2” apart, 8 traight and 
parallel near the apex, curved lower down and subpinnate in the auricle, 
