206 ROBINSON: PTERIDOPHYTA OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS 
son 13 V; 18 V; 135 V; Safford 914 N; 915 N; 916 N; Wilkes Expe- 
dition N; Kauai, Heller 2842 C, N; Hillebrand 60 B; Knudsen 68 
B; Hawaiian Islands, Baldwin 68 B, C, N; Hillebrand (ex herb. 
Berlin) C; Lindley C; Miss Sessions C; ex Herb. Underw. C; ex 
Herb. John Donnell Smith N; Wilkes Expedition C, N. 
25. NEOTTOPTERIS J. Sm. Jour. Bot. Hook. 3: 409. 1841 
A genus of epiphytic ferns, with fleshy, orchid-like roots, 
found in the forests of tropical Asia, Polynesia, Australia, and 
Africa. Rootstock erect, short; leaves large, simple, cespitose, 
sessile or nearly so, spreading, glabrous, entire, arranged spirally 
with short internodes; veins slender, parallel, close (less than I 
mm. apart), oblique to the midrib, connected by a transverse 
intramarginal vein at their apices; sori linear, extending from near 
the midrib 14 to 2 the length of the veins in the distal half or 
two thirds of the leaf. 
Type species: Neottopteris Nidus (L.) J. Sm. 
NEoTTopTERis Nipus (L.) J. Sm.; Hook. & Bauer, Gen. Ferns 
pl, 113.Be 1842 4 
Asplenium Nidus L. Sp. Pl.-1079. 1753. 
Thamnopteris Nidus Presl, Epim. 68. 1849. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Java. 
DIsTRIBUTION: On trees and on humus soil in forests, usually 
below 700 m., tropical Asia, Australia, Madagascar, and Polynesia. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Hook. & Bauer, Gen. Ferns pl. 113B. 1842; 
Breyne, Exot. Pl. Cent. pl. 99. 1678. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Hawaii, Wilkes Expedition N; Maui, 
Bailey C; Oahu, Didrichsen 3652 C; Gaudichaud B; Hillebrand B; 
Meyen B; Robinson 17 V; 103 V; Kauai, Heller 205 C; Hawaiian 
Islands, Baldwin 30 C; Mann & ie 137 N; Safford 31 N; 
Miss Sessions C. 
26. ASPLENIUM L. Sp. Pl. 1078. 1753 
A genus of world-wide distribution, especially well represented 
in the temperate zones, though including many tropical forms. 
Rootstock erect or creeping; leaves non-articulate, usually 
cespitose; blades simple to quadripinnate, coriaceous to mem-_ 
