612 FILICES. [Asplenium. 
pinnae catadromous, Whether its scales are glandular or not I Dane no opportunity 
for ascertaining. These marginal glands of the scales seem to have escaped observation 
hitherto, yet soma ore quite ¥en — neve : absent in this or the next species. In 
shape th undish, elongate-papillaeform, even cup-shaped, 
The cells of ne scales are flexuos oThe : stipes ha By ateral furrows besides the ventral 
one, and the otherwise Lodeehieaba ped fib. v; and is constricted or inflected by them 
4, Sandwichianum, Metten. tee p. 197. — Caudex thick, 
prostrate and rooting, rising at the end, the involute frondlets thickly 
covered with darkish ovate- ener ere tran nee thin-walled dentate 
or laciniate glandular scales. Stip. tufted, 1!/2—21/2 ft. long, paleaceous 
at the base but soon naked, pale brown; the seeds haha sparingly 
fibrillose. Frond subphegopteroid, membranous, dark-green, ovate - oblong, 
3—4 ft. in length, bi-, tripinnate. Pinnae aie or the lowest pair 
opposed, subascending, 12—15 stipitate ones on a side, the lowest 5—6‘ 
apart, 18—24' long, even-sided, oblong, broadest Shaae the waite shortly 
(a—1 ‘) stipitate, the upper ones homodromous at the base or even 
rereisttentt but Aa ake anadromous. Secondary pinnae oblong-lanceolate, 
3'/2e— 5‘ X 1/4—1 1/2, the first ones slightly contracting at the evenl 
truncate base, shortly heels (1—11/2"), eut to a bare or narrow- winged 
rhachis into about 10 pinnules of 6—8” in length, which are oblong, ob- 
tuse or somewhat pointed, sessile with a broad or cuneate base, slightly 
notched or cut into 6 or 7 pointed segments. Veins anadromous, 2—7 
to each segment, forking or subpinnate, their trunk and anterior branch 
at unife les of 20—25°. Sori straight, short, 1‘ or less and broad, 
in 2 regular lines of 5—8 each along the costa of the pinnule and conti- 
guous to it, occupying the trunk of the vein and part of its first anterior 
branch and not reaching the sinus; only in much developed forms sori 
also on secondary branches and then confluent; the primary sori diplazoid 
vol n 
roe aa in various directions. — Hook. Sp. Fil. III, 225? — Synops. Fil. p. 242? 
— Luerssen, 1. c. p. 435. — A. iota: Baker, in Synops. Fil. p. 228. — 
A, Gaucho Fée, Gen. Fil. p. 188? — Athyrium Sandwichianum, Pres}, 
sie Pterid. p. 98, and Epimel. p. 67? 
ahu! Pauoa and Kaaia; Molokai! tangs sw neta Maui! Pumelei; Hawaii! 
Wainen Kauai, Hanalei and Waimea (Wawra and Kn.). 
: — First pinnules of third hale stipitate, with an even-sided 
trunea’ te base 
Mani! Waih 
Placed under “this name chiefly for the reason that no other Hawaiian Aaplensam 
with ees better with Presl’s most unsatisfactory description. An Athyrium 
it is not, nor does ite appear that Presl’s plant, « with sori straight linear, %/—‘/«” long», 
Was one. Certainly Presl’s plant was mu men Smaller, but quite g ar vechs touts and for on 
and various other reasons it must ha Hoo 
A. alienum, ae, which are united with it in the Synops. Fil. In all probability ‘the 
3] © by Sir W™ Hooker as having been received from Mr. Lambert we 
not of Hawaiian eae for not ~ of our large compound Asplenia is tomentose. How 
far soos ccagy Wall., I am unable to oo ret it is not 
unlikely that it has some relationship wi with A. coriaceum, Carruth. in Fl. p. 397. 
