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squamosis; frondibus anguste-linearis, coriaccis, apice et basi 

 longe acuminatis, margine glabris, revolutis, subtus denslssime 

 squamosis ; squamis ovatis-lanceolatis, reticulatis, ciliatis ; 

 stipes teretes, squamosi, prope basim articulati. 



Climbing on trees ; rhizome slender, less than i cm. 

 m diameter, covered with dark-brown, glossy, stiff, lan- 

 ceolate scales; stipes clustered, terete, arising from lateral 

 buds, 2 to 3 cm. long, and also covered with short, dark 

 scales, when old of a bright reddish straw-color, showing 

 a well marked joint less than i cm. from the rhizome; fronds 

 coriaceous, 30-40 cm. long, 2 to 5 mm. wide, broadest above 

 the middle and tapering to each end, of a light green color 

 when young, becoming tawny and mottled with black on the 

 upper surface when old, densely covered beneath with ovate- 



lanceolate, ciliate and reticulate scales, naked above except 

 along the midvein; scales of the lower surface of the midvein 

 mottled with black; margins nearly naked and strongly 

 revolute, even when boiled ; veins pinnate, about i mm, 

 apart, sometimes bifurcate near the midvein. Yungas (342), 

 sterile specimens only; collected also by R. Pearce, June, 

 1865, at Quichara, Herb. Kew, marked ^'epiphytal ferns." 

 Another specimen, collected by Pearce at the same time and 

 place, has fronds nearly twice as long and broad, and the 

 scales are round and more deeply laciniate — perhaps a different 

 species. A remarkable species of the section Elaphoglossum 

 not approaching any member of the group that we have seen; 

 its nearest alliance is with A. lepidotum, Willd., and probably 

 with var. viitatiivi, Sodiro, Recens. Crypt. Vase. Quitenses, 

 p. 81. Named in honor of Professor Daniel Cady Eaton, of 

 Yale University, who first declared it to be a new species. 



A. cuspidatiim, Willd., Unduavi (293) ; Yungas (294). 



^. candatum. Hook., Mapiri (442). 



-^. os^mmdacemn. Hook, Yungas (443). 



Aneimia Breutelia^ia, PresL, Yungas (120). 



A, tomentosa, Sw., Yungas (118, 119)- 



A. Phyllitidis, Sw., Mapiri (155). 



Lygodiutn vemistum, Sw., Guanai (144); the form, L, palmati- 

 lobwn. Mart Flor. Bras., t 14. No. 6, Guanai (142) and 

 another, Z. hirsutum, Willd., Yungas (143). 



