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good specimens from Ulume and De Vriese, do not see liovv it is in any way to be 

 di.siinguislied specifically from the ./. latifolium. Our figure of the latter in Fil. 

 EKot. t. 4'2, from a living Sontii American specimen, really seems identical with 

 lilnme's East Indian A. calUefolium. 



5. A. (ElaphoglossLiiu) alismafolium, Fee; " fronds ovato- 

 lanceolate meinhraiuiceous sabcoriaceous ovate acuminate 

 acute at the base and decurrent, the margin in drying re volute, 

 stipites long unisulcate paleaceous nigrescent at the base, 

 veins turgescent at the apex ; sterile ones ovato-lanceolate, 

 costa compressed ; fertile lanceolate long-stipitate narrower 

 reddish-brown beneath, caudex creeping thick as a child's 

 finger, its scales linear, the margin scarcely toothed fulvous 

 very long crisped when dry." — Fee, Acrost. p. 28. t. 3. Ela- 

 phoglossum, Moore. 



llab. Tropical America: Guadeloupe, L'Herminier, n. 7; Cuba, Linden, n. 

 2158 ; New Granada, Purdie, Fund, n. 654 ; to which Moore adds Cuba, C. 

 Wright, n. 791, 9GG, 970 ; Jamaica, Portorico, etc., most of them apparently 

 from my herbarium, and all of which 1 should have been disposed to refer to A. 

 latifolium. — Fee observes, " Cctte cspece varie par ses froudes ovoides, tcrminees 

 en uue pointe mousse ou aiguti, le stipes s'allonge plus ou moins," etc. ; and there 

 is nothing essentially at variance with the A. latifolium. 1 may remark that Mr. 

 Moore refers my specimen of A. Sartorii, Liebm., from Mexico, to A. alismcpfo- 

 lium. It is, I suspect, an elongated form of that plant, and is the same as A. To- 

 varenae, Metten. in Eat. Fil. Wright, et Fendl., and a Peruvian plant of Mathews, 

 n.388, which I bring under A. latifolium. 



G. A. (Elaphoglossum) Sieberi, Hook, and Grev. ; caudex a 

 short thick horizontal rhizome copiously rooting below gene- 

 rally forming knots or lumps from whicli the fronds arise 

 and these are densely crinite with long narrow-linear subu- 

 late erect almost black hair-like scales, stipites 2 inches to a 

 s])an long scurfy with small black imperfect scales, fronds 

 firm-coriaceous 2-15 inches in length and from 1-3 inches 

 wide elliptic or oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, the margin a 

 little thickened and recurved obtuse or bluntly acuminated 

 moderately attenuated and decurrent at the base strongly 

 costate, costa prominent beneath ; fertile fronds generally 

 smaller and narrow entirely soriferous except on the rather 

 broad costa. — Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 23/. Fee, Acrost. 

 p. 29. Olfersia, Fr. Elaphoglossum, Moore. Acrostichuni 

 latifolium, Sieb. Syn. Fil. n. 2G {cmStv.?). A. ellipticuni, 

 Fee, Acrost. p. 30. t.^.f. 2. Elaphoglossum, Moore. 



llab. Mauritius and Bourbon, Commer.<ton, Bory, Sieber, n. 2G, Bojer, Carmi- 

 chael, etc. Fernando Fo, G. Mann, alt. 2000 feet, n. 370.— I liave said all I can 

 in favour of this being distinct from A. lutifuHum ; the character rests chiclly on 



