604 FILICEs. [Asplenium. 
8 var. — Less robust. Stipes and rhachis naked. Pinnae cut more 
deeply into mostly obovate, spreading, even recurved lobes having a 
broader many toothed apex. Veins more divided, but the anterior branch 
quite close and — to the costa. Secondary sori on most lobes be- 
wend ip primary 0 
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24, A. spathulinum, Hook. Sp. Fil. IU, 170 (not J. Smith?). - — Rhizo 
creeping, 3“ thick, the scales 3—4“ long, from an ovate base pass 
acuminate and falcate, ending in a hair-like point. Stip. 3—4“” apart, 
naked or fibrillose, Bark bance 10—15’ long. Frond chartaceous to 
coriaceous, olive-green in the thinner forms, of a dark bronze color when 
thick and dry, lustrous on both sides, 12—36‘ in length, ree -lanceolate, 
slightly narrowing below, or at least the lowest pinnae not than 
those next above, bipinnate, with pinnatifid apex. Pinas ‘ane on each 
side, lanceolate, 3—6‘ * 1—1%/4‘, shortly stipitate, caudate - acuminate, 
long spathulate and broadly obovate segments which are rounded or 
pointed, dentate or serrate at the top, the innermost tapering into narrow 
un 
flabellate on nearly all segments and soon confluent, the narrow disk 
along the costa having room for primary sori only near the apex. — 
In the middle forest region of all islands. — Occurs also in Aneitum, Luzon, Borneo, 
yylon. — A very gr bal a 
more divided form of A. caudatum, the shape of which it repeats at the apices of frond 
and pinnae. The pinnae vary much in shape and cutting, their bases being mostly og 
large, sometimes even narrower, but often much broader pong the porti 
The pinnules are not properly stipitate, but mae a very narrow margin to the rhachis. 
In the most divided forms from E. Maui and Hawaii they ri lengthened to a point 
and their lower half is cut in a straight line, so as to give them a trapezoid shape. 
B var. furcellatum. — Rhizome creeping. Stip. distant, naked except 
at the base, dark-brown, 7—14‘ long. Frond oblong-lanceolate, 1—2 ft., 
of the same color and texture as before, and naked. Pinnae 12—18 on 
a side, 2'/2—4‘ long, cut as before; but the inner segments truncate at 
the top, with 2 or 3 deeper slits besides the serratures, the next segments 
obliquely truncate and serrate (Kauai); or the inner segments cuneate- 
obovate, rounded at top, with several sscuas slits and serratures, the 
uneate (Kaala 
Oahu! Kaala; E. Maui! Ulupalakua; Kauai! “ all ore Saray saan with forms 
of a. — In shape pe cutting of pinnae agreeing wi at acs , but the creeping 
rhizome, the color and size of the naked fron ork separa ation from the 
present species. It will serve to etablish the close po ior sneer these two species. 
25. A. furcatum, Thunb. — Hook. Sp. Fil. LIZ, 165. — Caudex short 
and stout, clothed at the apex with dark-brown and glossy acuminate 
