ROBINSON: PTERIDOPHYTA OF THE HAWAIIAN IsLANDs 201 
ILLUSTRATION: Gaud. Voy. Freyc. Bot. pl. 8. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Hawaii, Wilkes Expedition N; Maui, 
Lichtenthaler N; Molokai, Baldwin 93a B; 93b B; Kauai, Remy 
16 C; Hawaiian Islands, Hillebrand 122 B; Wilkes Expedition 20 
B, C. 
20. PHYMATODES Presl, Tent. Pterid. 195. 1836 
Tropical plants, mostly epiphytic; rootstock creeping; leaves 
articulate, distant, simple; veins obscure or prominent, anastomos- 
ing, with free included veinlets; sorus borne upon anastomosing 
veins or upon the clavate apex of an included vein, non-indusiate. 
Type species: Polypodium zosteraeforme Wall. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate; veins obscure; sori round, nearly covering 
wn. 
leaf from costa to margin, light bro 
Leaves palmately lobed; veins prominent; sori small, dark. 
P. elongata. 
P. Spectrum. 
PHYMATODES ELONGATA Presl, Tent. Pterid. 196. 1836 
Polypodium lineare Thunb. FI. Jap. 335. 1784. Not Burm. 
Pleopeltis nuda Hook. Fil. Exot. 63. 1823. 
Pleopeltis linearis Kaulf, Enum. 246. 1824. 
Pleopeltis Thunbergiana Kaulf. Wes. d. Farrenkr. 113. 1827. 
Polypodium leiopteris Kunze, Klotzsch, Linnaea 23: 319. 1850. 
Drynaria nuda Fée, Gen. 1: 270. 1850-52. 
Drynaria elongata Brack. Fil. U. S. Expl. Exp. 42. 1854. 
Niphobolus linearis Keyserl. Polyp. Cyath. Herb. Bung. 39. 1873. 
TYPE LocALity: Kosido, Japan. 
DIsTRIBUTION: On trees and rocks; pone countries. 
SPECIMENS: EXAMINED: Hawaii, Lichtenthaler N; Maui, Wilkes 
Expedition N; O. Finsch to C; Kauai, Heller 2533 C; 3533 N; 
Oahu, Wilkes Expedition C; Diell C; Heller 2005 C, N; 2076 C, 
N; 2031 C, N; Mann & Brigham 177 N; Robinson 84 V; Safford 
893 N; 1887 N; Hawaiian Islands, Baldwin 82 C, N; R. H. 
Hitchcock C; ex Herb. John Donnell Smith N. 
PHyMATODES SPECTRUM (Kaulf.) Presl, Tent. Pterid. 197. 1836 
Polypodium Spectrum Kaulf. Enum. 94. 1824. 
Polypodium Thouinianum Gaud. Voy. Freyc. Bot. 348. 1828. 
