196 ACROSTICHUM, § E LAPHOGLOSS UM. 



attenuated from above the middle and decurrent upon the 

 caudex, the margin white callous sui)sinuous and crisped, 

 veins manifest when the frond is seen between the eye and the 

 light; fertile frond smaller, the white margin reflexed, cap- 

 sules yellow-brown, costa broad partially paleaceous below. — 

 Met ten. in Eat. Fil. Wright, et Fendl. p. 194. Elaphoglossum, 

 Moore. 



Hab. Cuba, C. Wright, n. 965. — This appears to me a very good species, with 

 scales on the stipes not unlike those of A. decoratum, and witli similar ones to 

 those on the long scandent caudex, a white, subcrenate, and waved margin, patent 

 on the sterile frond, but closely reflexed and not crenate on the fertile fronds ; 

 giving the appearance of a pteroid involucre. 



3. A. (Elaphoglossum) andicoIa,Fee', "sterile fronds thick 

 cartilaginous ovato-lanceolate very glabrous margined acute 

 at the apex decurrent at the base, costa thick, veins con- 

 verging spreading at an angle of 85° ; fertile ones lanceolate 

 acute at both extremities glabrous margined, costa stout, 

 capsules pale fulvous, — planta sicca aurata." — Fee, Acrost. 

 p. 28. /. 2. A. pachyphyllum, Eat. in Fil. Wright, et Fendl. 

 p. 7 {omitting syn. o/IIymenodium Kunzeanum^ Fee). 



Hab. Venezuela, alt. 4000-14,500 feet. Linden, n. 549 {Fee). Mexico (Fee). To 

 these Moore adds, Venezuela, Fendler, n. 293 and 296 (but which is Elaphogl. pa- 

 chyphyllum, according to Eaton, in Fil. ViTight. et Fendl., and to which Eaton 

 reiers Ilymenodium Kunzeannm, Fee, Acrost. p. 90, t. 58). — I have no authentic 

 specimen of this plant of Fee, unless Fendler'scan be considered so, and as Moore 

 consi'^'^rs it to be; but I confess 1 should have little hesitation in referring 

 Fee's figure and Fendler's specimens to A. laiifolium. The sori are fulvous, it is 

 true, in the n. 296 of the latter, but dark-brown in 293. Trifling variations are 

 brought forward too much, failing others, as specific distinctions. Moore re- 

 marks, " Elaphoglosso latifol. affiue." 



4. A. (Elaphoglossum) callcefolium, Bl. ; " fronds oblong- 

 lanceolate elongated acute at each end coriaceous long de- 

 current glabrous undulate, fertile ones of the same form 

 rather obtuse shorter longer stipitate, stipites at the base and 

 the caudex paleaceous, veins extending to the margin, costa 

 thick prominent beneath canaliculate above, caudex woody 

 creeping thicker than a goose-quill, scales lanceolate entire." 

 Fee.—Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 22. t. 4 {not Link). Olfersia, Pr. 

 Elaphoglossum, Moore. 



Hab. Java, Mount Cede, 8000-9000 feet above the level of the sea. Blame.— 

 M. Fee, whose character, as I have given above, seems to have been taken from 

 an original specimen of Blunie, is at great pains to distinguish it from his South 

 American A. alismcefoliam — " Elle a desfrondes aiguiis, mais non-acumiiiees des 

 petioles (stipites) plus courts et plus delies, une lame niarginee et un mesoneure 

 colore, infiniraent plus robuste," etc. I, on iny part, who possess authentic and 



