EE. s 
Ocrozer 30, 1908] .PrERIDoPHYTES OF THE Horn or NxaGnos 
lacerae." Yet Fée, usually the most careful of authors in such 
details, says these paleae are oval, and distinguishes A. Cumingii 
(Cuming 193, not 194, as stated by Christ Monograph p. 152), as 
` having linear paleae.  Achrostichum obtusifolium is a name by 
which various authors would have designated E. luzonicum, 
but according to Presl and Christensen the original A. obtusifolium 
Willd. is more likely to have been a Leptochilus. 
Elaphoglossum callaefolium (BI.) Moore. 
No. 9815a. Sterile specimens mixed with the preceding. 
Mindanzo. 
Java. 
Elaphoglossum conforme (Sw.) J. Sm. 
On mossy shrubs, etc., alt. 1400 m., No. 9885. 
Reported from Luzon, but not known to me there. 
Almost pantropic. 
Key to Philippine species of Elaphoglossum. 
1. Paleae of rhizome narrow, dark. 
2. Frond not very coriaceous, beset with stellate scales. 
3. Sterile fronds less than 3 cm. wide. 
E. petiolatum. 
3. Sterile frond, more than 3 cm. wide. 
E. Copelandi. 
2. Frond itu aoon. glabrous or -r s0. 
E. callaefolium. 
1. Paleae of rhizome narrow but lighter and thin. 
E. decurrens. 
1. Paleae of rhizome broad, thin. 
2. Fronds close together. 
3. Fronds obtuse. 
8. Fronds acute. 
2. Fronds scattered. 
417. 
