FLORA VITIENSIS. 375 
This species was originally, and has been nearly all along, confounded with Linnweus’s Aecrostichwn 
spicatum, from Bourbon. The primary veins in the Bourbon plants are stron d well ile i 
that from the islands of Eastern Asia and Polynesia the veins ae cies Se ae 
LI. Chrysodium, Fée, Hist. Acrost. p. 22. Sporangia paginam totam inferiorum pinnarum 
frondis fertilis tegentia, in soros superficiales aggregata. Vense anastomosantes.—Filices rhizomate 
vix repente, crasso ; frondibus monotaxibus pinnatis, pinnis superioribus soriferis. 
1, c. aureum, Mett. Fil. Lips. p. 21; rhizomate crasso; stipitibus levibus nudis sulcatis , 
frondibus pinnatis, rigidis ; pinnis sterilibus, lanceolatis v, oblongo-ligulatis, plus minusve angustis, 
apice acuminatis y. obtusis, margine integris, paululum revolutis; fertilibus angustioribus.—Acro- 
stichum aureum, Linn. Sp. Pl. p, 1068.—Viti (Seemann! n. 709; Harvey ! M‘Gillivray! Milne! 
Sir E. Home!). Also from New Caledonia (Strange!), Tahiti (Banks and Solander!), Raiatea 
(Collie !), Aneitum, New Hebrides (M‘Gillivray !), and Upolu, Navigators’ Islands (Sir H, Home!). 
Susorpo III. CSMUNDACEZ. 
LI, Todea, Willd. Act. Acad. Erford. 1802, p. 14. t. 3. f.1. Sporangia obovato-globosa, 
pedicellata, dorso annulo obsoleto transversali gibbosa, longitudinaliter dehiscentia, venis simplicibus 
v. furcatis imposita, in soros oblongos ad venas paginw inferioris collecta. Venz simplices v. fur- 
eatze, venulis liberis,—Filices caudice erecto, frondibus coriaceis v, pellucido-membranaceis, bipin- 
natis, pinnis articulatis. 
1. T. Wilkesiana, Brack. U.S. Expl. Exped. Filices, p. 309. t. 43; candice erecto; stipitibus 
leevibus, semiteretibus, antice sulcatis; frondibus membranaceis, glabris, bipinnatis; pinnis sessili- 
bus, oblongo-lanceolatis, inferioribus deflexis; rachibus pilosis, alatis; pinnulis oblongis, obtusis, 
dentatis, basi oblique cuneatis, pellucido-punctatis.—Viti (Seemann! n. 787; M‘Gillivray! U.S, 
Expl, Exped.). 
Susorpo LV. SCHIZ MACE A, 
LIIl. Schizza, Smith, Act. Turin. 1790-91, p. 419. Sporangia subsessilia, ovata, annulo 
apicali completo transverso instructa, pagina inferiori appendicium fertilium pinneformium adnata. 
Venez simplices v. flabellato-dichotome, liberee.—Filices rhizomate repente, frondibus simplicibus 
v. repetito-dichotomis v. flabellatis.—Ripidium, Bernh. Schrad, Journ. 1800, vol, ii, p. 127. Actino- 
stachys, Wall. Cat. n. 1. 
The following have also been found in tropical Polynesia :—1. S, fistulosa, Labill. Ml. Nov. Holl, 
vol, ii. p. 108. t. 250. f. 3, from New Caledonia (Vieillard). 2. S. bifida, Willd. Sp. Pl, vol. v. p, 87, from 
New Caledonia (Vieillard). 3. 8, robusta, Baker, Syn. Fil. p, 429, from Sandwich Islands (Hillebrand). 
4. §. laevigata, Mett, Ann, Se. Nat, ser. 4, vol. xv. p. 54, from New Caledonia (Sinclair! Vieillard), and 
Isle of Pines (Milne !). 5. 8. atermedia, Mett. 1.c, p. 86, from New Caledonia (Vieillard). 
1. S. dichotoma, Smith, Act. Tnrm. 1790-91, p. 419 (excl. fig.) ; rhizomate repente, piloso ; 
stipitibus basi semiteretibus, supra sulcatis, submarginatis 5 frondibus subflabelliformibus, repetitim 
dichotomis, segmentis linearibus, compressis, coriacels, medio costatis, plus minusve pene ea 
soriferis; appendicibus soriferis recurvatis, pinnatis; pimnis 10-20 paribus disposttis, oppositis, = 
ribus, ultime brevioribus.—<Acrostichum dichotomum, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1068 (fide spec. m i 
Petiver.),—Viti (Harvey! Grefle! Milne! U, 8. Expl. Exped.), Also from Samoan Islands 
(D. Nelsou !). 80-6 
