j^l F I L I C E S. 



Hab. Luzon, Philippine Islands. Feejee and Samoan Islands. 

 Tahiti, Society Islands. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 



The plants from these various localities are in nO way different' 

 from each other. 



40. ASPLENIUM ACUMINATUM, Hooh. & Am. 

 Asplenhim acuminatum, Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. Yoy. p. 106. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands; abundant on high' mountains behind' 

 Honolulu, ©ahu. 



The fronds of this, with the stipe, are from' 2 to 3i- feet long, 

 bipinnate, with elongated-lanceolate and very much acuminate pinnae. 

 The numerous pinnules are subject to great variation in 1 their size and 

 form; being sometimes lanceolate, acute, and incisely-pirinatifid, about 

 H inches long, the superior base subauriCulate; or lanceolate and 1 

 dentate-serrate, cuneate at the base, and less than an inch in length. 

 Both forms are striate-venose on the upper surface. Sori parallel and 

 a little oblique with the obscure costa. 



41. ASPLENIUM PATENS, Kaulf. 



A. stipitibus semiteretibus paleaceo-hirsutis ; frondibus bipinnatis; pinnvs 

 alternis patentibus ; pinnulis membranaceis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis 

 pinnatifidis, laciniis oblongis cuneatis apice inciso-dentatis, singulis* 

 sows 2-4 oblongos gerentibus. 



Asplenium patens,- K^nU. Enum. Fil. p. 175; Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 106'. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands : on mountains behind Honolulu, Oahu. 



Stipes about a foot long, half round, sulcate in front, and with the' 

 rhachis paleaceous-hirsute. Fronds linear-oblong, bipinnate, a little lax 

 in their habit, M to 2 feet long, the pinnce alternate and spreading. 

 Pinnules membranaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acute, pinnutijui, one to 1 ¥ 

 inches in length ; the lobes oblong-cuneate, incisely toothed at the apex. 

 Sori oblong, 2 or 3, sometimes 4 on a segment or lobe. 



