608 FILICES. | Asplenium. 
Oahu! Pauoa. — A still a developed ae from the same locality has the pinnae 
pinnatifid in the outer half a he pinnules cuneate-obovate or rhomboido-ovate and 
quite obtuse, with the soumnier evanescent be Rice’ the middle and the sori subflabellate. 
29. A. acuminatum, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 106. — «Rhizome 
creeping, nearly as thick as a goose-quill. Stip. subaggregate », lurid-brown, 
slightly furfuraceous, 6—9‘ high. Frond thin chartaceous to pie Re ities 
dark-green, oblong- tebe broadest near the middle, 18—30’ * 8—1 
bipinnate, pinnate near the apex. Pinnae close, 18—28 on a side, a 
sessile, erecto- patent, the lower ones subopposite, the longest 5—7‘ X 1/2 ‘ 
lanceolate, broadest at the base, pinnatifid with closely appressed segments 
serrate with acute teeth, the inferior base cut straight, the superior truncate, 
the auricular lobule, when present, with 4 or 5 straight ee Costule 
weak, flexuose, deliquescent. Sori 2—3’ long, at angles —30°, 
the anterior fork-branches, with sometimes 1 or 2 enna ones in is 
copie lobule. — Hook. Sp. Fil. III, 183, tab. 206. — Synops. Fil. p. 218. 
— Brack, 1:6, p. 16 
siti Nuuanu and Pauoa; Maui! Ulupalakua. — Not known from elsewhere. 
Nat. name: «Lola». 
8 var. — Pinnules elongate, lanceolate-acute, with the upper half of 
the base receding from the rhachis, incised more or less deeply into truncate 
lobules which are 4- or 5-toothed at the apex, nearly as in § of the 
preceding species, all veinlets running into teeth, the a not much 
larger than the next lobule. Upper basal pinnule 1—1!'/2’ long. 
Oahu! top of Mt. Kaala. The pinnules cut exactly as in some forms of A. nitidum, Sw. 
+ var. subintegrum. — Pinnules narrow lanceolate as in 8, but subentire 
except the larger basal ones, which are cut; those of the upper half 
1—11/2‘ long. 
Maui! Haleakala. 
30. A. patens, Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 175 (non Hooker nec Gaudichaud). 
— Stip. crowded on a short creeping rhizome, 1—2 ft. long, of a deep 
chocolate-brown, sparingly furfuraceous above with deciduous fibrils, but 
soon naked and glossy. Frond dark-green, either chartaceous and shining 
oblong, 18—36' X 9—20', the one or two lowest pinnae shortening 2 
little, bipinnate to tripinnate. Pinnae about 18 on a side, mostly sub- 
opposite, ventral along the deep groove of the rhachis, on stalks of 3—4", 
broad lanceolate, the largest 9—12/ >< 2—4', slightly narrowing at the 
base, pinnatifid e finely acuminate apex with linear appres ressed seg 
ments. Stipitate pinnules 12—16 on a side, obliquely ovate-lanceolate, the 
largest 11/2—2/,‘ long, cuneate at the base, gradually and finely acuminate; 
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