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SANDWICH ISLANDS. 
[Polypodiacem. 
ceoiis fronds. It is assuredly the Aspidium sinuatum of Gaudichaud, but not of Labillardiere, which has a 
setose stipes and rachis, and tufts of hairs in the sinuses of the margins of the fronds ; and is, moreover, a 
much less divided plant. The indusia are very^unlike those of Nephrodium Hippocrepis, to which it has a 
considerable afiSnity, and the colour of the stipes and rachis is different; in the latter particular, too, it is at 
variance with the Aspidium apifolium of Schkuhr ; but in all other respects, it seems entirely to accord 
with that plant, whence we have been induced to adopt that name. 
5. Nephrodium squamigerum; supra decompositum tri-quadripinnatum, pinnulis ob- 
longis obtusis pinnatifidis basi decurrentibus supra ad nervos prsecipue puberulis, stipite 
racbibusque subtus dense squamulosis, squamis fimbriatis, soris subserialibus intra costam et 
marginem, indusiis reniformibus tenerrimis fimbriato-ciliatis. 
The specimens in the Herbarium are but portions of a larger frond, densely divided, flaccid, the primary 
divisions aciuninated ; the upper sxu-face glabrous, or only downy on the secondary rachides and nerves, 
while the stipes and rachides beneath, and even the primary nerves or costae, are densely clothed with 
copious, delicate, membranous, reticulated, and fimbiiated scales. 
1. Asplenium resectum. Smith, Icon. ined. p. 72. t. 72. Forst. Prodr. n. 427. 
2. Asplenium obliquum. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 78, et 268. Schkuhr, Fit. p. 66. t. 71. — A. luci- 
dum? Forst. Prodr. n. 429. 
In our specimens of this variable plant, the lower pinnae are much broader than the rest, and again pin- 
nated with 2-4 rhomboid pinnae. 
3. Asplenium contiguum; frondibus pinnatis, pinnis lineari-lanceolatis attenuatis inciso- 
serratis serraturis dentatis basi superiore rotundato-cuneatis subauriculatis inferiore ab- 
scisso-attenuatis, soris contiguis costse parallelis. Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 172. Gaud, in Freyc. 
Voy. p. 321. 
That this may be a state of the following plant, we think very probable ; but we caunot agree mth 
Gaudichaud, that it is a variety of A. horridum. 
4. Asplenium Jiliforme; frondibus pinnatis, pinnis lanceolato-linearibus longissime 
filiformi-attenuatis inciso-serratis serraturis adpressis subdenticulatis, infimis basi superne 
lobato-incisis, soris contiguis costse parallelis. Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 172. 
5. Asplenium horridum; frondibus pinnatis, pinnis lineari-lanceolatis attenuatis inciso- 
lobatis, lobis oblongis trimcatis crenatis, soris costse contiguis parallelis in lobis geminis, 
stipite rachique hirsutis. Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 173. Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. p. 318. 
A very remarkable plant: first detected, as were the two following species, by Mr. Menzies, in the Sand- 
wich Islands. 
6. Asplenium acuminatum; frondibus bipinnatis glabris, pinnidis lanceolatis acuminatis 
inciso-pinnatifidis striato-venosis rigidis basi cuneatis bine auriculatis, lobis dentatis, soris 
oblique parallelis, raebi subbirsuta. 
Habit and texture of the two preceding, but constautly twice pinnated : the primary pinnae lanceolate, 
much acuminated, 4-6 inches long, having numerous pinnules, which are from an inch to an inch and a half 
in length, and more or less deeply inciso-pinnatifid, according to their situation upon the plant. The veins 
are almost parallel with the costa, and hence give a striated appearance to the pinnules. 
7. Asplenium patens; frondibus ti’iplicato -pinnatifidis, pinnis patentibus alternis, pii^- 
nulis pinnatifidis, laciniis oblongo-cuneatis apice inciso-dentatis. Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 175. 
Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. p. 320. 
