Die Farne der Samoa-Inseln. 357 
„Hab. Tutuila, Samoan Islands; in the vicinity of Pago-pago 
Bay, in mountain forests, on trees.“ 
„Rootstock caespitose, short and globose, coated with ferrugi- 
nous, villose, squamose scales. Sterile fronds subcoriaceus, 
oblo ng-lanceolate, obtuse, about a span long, and 10 lines 
broad, v i 11 o u s with sparse, brown hairs on the margin, together 
with the forked veins and costa, whicb are prominent on 
botb sides; the fertile fronds lanceolate, obtuse, 2 1 l i 
inch. long by 6 lines broad. Stipe about 4 inch. long, that of the 
sterile frond about half this length, densely villose; the hairs a 
little deflexed.“ 
„This is related lo A. strictum of Raddi; but the fertile frond 
is nmch smaller in proportion to the sterile one than in Raddi’s 
plant, which has a shorter stipe and narrower sterile fronds.“ 
10. Chrysodium Ree. *) 
29. Chrysodium au re um Mett. 
Lssn. Fil. Graeff. 1. c. 66. 
Chrysodium vulgare Füe. — Mett. Novara-Exped. Bot. I. 202. 
Upolu. Brackwassersümpfe der Küste: Graeffe no. 275, 326, 
431 et 1044! 
*) Der no. 5. Chrysodium ZolliDgeri Kuhn; Lssn. 1. c. 69, ist als weiteres 
Synonym beiznfügen : Cyrtogonium rivulare Brack. Fil. U. S. Expl. Exped. 85, 
tab. 11, flg. 2. Acrostichum rivulare Hook. Spec. Fil. Y. 263. Brackenridge 
giebt diese Art für „Ovalau, Feejee Islands; banks of streams, on wet rocks, 
in shady places“ an. Seine Beschreibung lautet: 
„C. rhizomate repente; stipitibus angularibns paleaceis; frondibus mem- 
branaceis glabris obloDgis attenuatis basi pinnatis versus apicem sinuato-pinnati- 
fldis, fertilibus minoribus; pinnis integris oblongo-lanceolatis vel ovatis obtusis sub- 
falcatis apice proliferis.“ > 
„Rootstock creeping, about the thickness of a goosequill, and paleaceous ; 
the paleae reticulate, ovate-oblong, attenuate, dentate. Stipes angular, slightly 
furrowed, 4—5 inches long; that of the fertile frond 12 —14 inches long, and, 
together with the rhachis, bearing slender, rufous paleae. Sterile fronds 8—10 
inches long, smooth and membranaceous, oblong, attenuated, the base pinnate, 
towards the apex sinuato-pinnatifid, the latter with the obtuse points of the 
pinnae proliferous. Fertile fronds small, not exceeding 4 inches in length, 
with the points of the pinnae oblong-lanceolate or ovate, more ronnded than in 
the sterile ones. Sporangia of a pale straw-colour, concealing the whole of the 
nnder surface.“ 
