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Faurie No. 296, Maui, Makawao, alt. 800 m. 
Differs from Athyrium Fenzlianum in the scales, from A. marginale 
in the absence of reduced basal pinnules, and from A. deparioides in the 
sharp and narrow sinuses. In essential characters it agrees more nearly 
with A. kaalaanum, but the two are so extremely unlike in appearance 
that, in the absence of intermediates, I cannot combine them. I have tried 
to identify this fern with Diplazium sandwichense Presl, Epim. 85, but 
can not reconcile Presl’s “pinnis obtusis basi superiore 
rotundato truncatis inferiore acutissimis” with my plant. 
From the Royal Botanical Garden at Berlin, I have a fragment collected 
by Gaudichaud, supposed to be Diplazium sandwichense. It does not fit 
Presl’s description very perfectly and is more like Athyrium Fenzlianum 
than A. mauianum; the type was collected by Meyen. 
ATHYRIUM KAALAANUM Copel. sp. nov. 
Species A. japonico (Thunb.) Copel. affinis, rhizomate brevis- 
simo, erecto, radices multos emittente; stipitibus confertissimis, 
5 cm altis, basin versus paleis laete brunneis lanceolatis deciduis 
vestitis, stramineis et brunneis, carnosis; fronde 10-15 cm alta. 
3-5 cm lata, acuminata, basi vix angustata, rhachi gracile sub 
lente minute squamosula, parte apicale tertia pinnatifida, infra 
earn partem pinnata pinnis adnatis, parte inferiore tertia ad 
mediam pinnata pinnis stipitatis; pinnis adscendentibus, liberis 
interdum 4 ad costam pinnatifidis,' lanceolatis, obtusis, basi plus 
minus truncatis; lobis integris, infimo basiscopico interdum 
praestantiore ; lamina glabra, atroviride, membranacea; soris 
brevibus, medialibus, oblongis; indusio atrobrunneo angustis- 
simo et deinde facile invisu. 
Faurie No. 29U, Kauai, Kaala, Nov. 1909. 
Unquestionably related to Athyrium japonicum, from which it differs 
chiefly in rhizome and indusium. The rhizome of A. japonicum is often 
very short but still prostrate and the stipes not nearly so crowded as in 
this plant. Baker in the Synopsis, p. 235 of the second edition, states that 
“a similar plant grows in the Sandwich Islands;” but according to Hille- 
brand this reference is to A. Fenzlianum which is really a very distinct 
fern. A. kaalaanum may possibly be Hillebrand’s var. “ depauper atum" of 
A. marginale. 
SADLERI A FAURIEI Copel. sp. nov. 
Caudice ignoto; stipite 45 cm alto, castaneo, basi paleis fulvo- 
castaneis nitidis linearibus 2 cm longis duriusculis dense obtecto, 
sursum rhachique glabris; fronde ca. 50 cm alta, 35 cm lata; 
pinnis sessilibus, acuminatis, 15-20 cm longis, 20-25 mm latis, 
fere ad costam pinnatifidis, infimis paullo brevioribus ; segmentis 
approximate, 4-5 mm latis, plerumque falcatis, obtusis vel acu- 
tis, apicem versus minute crenulatis, glabris, coriaceis; venis 
inconspicuis ; soris a costa ^ ad apicem protensis, lineari-oblongis, 
paginam haud complentibus. 
