600 FILICES, . [Asplenium. 
Hawaii! Kohala range at Kawaihae iuka, 4000—5000 ft. elevation (Hbd.); E. Maui! 
(Baldwin); Kauai! high mountains of Waimea (Kn.). 
8 var. connectens. — Much smaller. Frond 9‘ long, deltoid -lanceolate, 
bipinnate to tripinnatisect, the main rhachis in its upper portion and the 
obovate as in A. insititiwm, or rather in its var. ~, but smaller, 4—8” long, 
and only the two basal ones, which are much the largest, pinnatisect into 
2 or 3 cuneate-obovate truncate segments resembling those in « of the 
present species. The leading nerve is marked externally by a promi- 
nence and paler color, but vanishes in the upper half of the pinnules. All 
Kauai! Maui! Haleakala; with the first form. — Serves to connect the Loge: 
species with A. insititium, a relationship which without it would hardly “6 suspected 
It that in cutting of pinnae this variety bears a grea semblance to 
the A. cuneatum fi St. Vincent in the W. Indies, which is, I believe, the origin 
Lamark’s spec I owever, in being, although of the same size, a much stouter 
plant with thicker texture, in the deltoid outline of the frond, the compressed rhachi 
and constant develo f the subapical gemma. , a com e 
ais not k cuneatum. . cuneatum which com fi 
€ mes fri Natal, 
have no hesitation in placing it with ven “and others next to A. laserpitiifolium, 
which belongs to the group of A. contiguu 
Group of A. contiguum. Nos. 19—26. 
Rhizome wide-creeping, covered at the end with short dark - brown sad wegen 
in gth, w. ation. Stipites 
un: ba 
braced or eumeate-obovate e, with close vine sharp adpressed teeth or serratures. Veins 
ty close, simple, forking 7” imple veins (near the apex) and the anterior 
pe of the compound systems rising fi m the costa (under the second lower sinus) 
- acute angles of about 5°, and subpara allel yt the ooeta until ue reach their own lobe 
to angles of 10—50 ; the compound systems n: 
very close and och or less imbricate, confluent age; secondary sori in the larger 
lobes and segments flabellate. Inyolucre narrow, veneers at both ends. No tendency to 
proliferation. 
19. A. contiguum, Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 172. — Rhizome creeping, 2—3" 
thick, the scales 11/2—3” long, linear-lanceolate, with a capillary point. 
Stip. at distances of 3—4“, is only at ‘ie base, seldom sparingly 
fibrillose, glossy, brown, slender, 6—18‘ long. Frond chartaceous, dark- 
green with satiny pense: slave Aha slightly narrowing below, 
9—36‘ in length, pinnate, with pinnatifid apex. Pinnae 14—36 on each 
side, shortly stipitate, patent, linear-lanceolate, often faleate and recurved, 
2—5‘ X 1/4—1/2', acutely pointed or more frequently long-acuminate; the 
base very little dilated, obliquely cut in the lower half to a great extent, 
the upper half receding from the main rhachis, often cuneate; the edge 
sharply and acutely notched or incised and closely dentate or serrate with 
