198 ACROSTICHUM, § ELAPHOGLOSSUM. 



the very 4&fk colour and almost setaceous character of the scales of the caudex. 

 In the absence of caudex on my Fernando Po specimens, they are as likely to be 

 J. latifolium as A. Sieberi. 



7. A. (Elaphoglossum) macr op odium, Fee; " s/f-ri/e fronds 

 lanceolate coriaceous robust, the margin incrassated subre- 

 volute beneath copiously but minutely dotted with white 

 (not in my specimens), costa prominent; fertile fronds 

 nearly uniform in size lanceolate elongate acuminate, stipes 

 robust (scarcely in my specimens) longer, costa prominent 

 beneath striated canaliculate above, veins spreading at an 

 angle of 85°-88°, caudex thick as a child's finger short scaly, 

 scales tawny ovato-lanceolate laxly imbricated/^ — Fee, 

 Acrost. p. 30. t. 6. /. 2. Elaphoglossum, Moore. A. coria- 

 ceum. Wall. Cat. n. 14 ?, according to Moore. 



Hab. Bourbon, Fee, and (if Wallich's plant be the same) Mauritius, TFaWzcA. 

 — I possess no authentic specimen of Fee's plant, of which he further remarks 

 that It varies in the length and breadth of the fronds and of the stipes, and that 

 it differs from A. Sieberi, Hook, and Grev., and his A. elUpticum, both from the 

 same islands, by the large and tawny scales, and by the form of the rhizome. I 

 confess that my specimens do not well accord with Fee's plant, judging from his 

 figure and description, for though they very much differ in the colour and nature 

 of the caudical scales from A. Sieberi, they want the white dots oi A. macropo- 

 diiim, and may possibly be forms of latifolium or of conforme. 



8. A. (Elaphoglossum) conforme, Sw. ; caudex creeping 

 varying in length and thickness paleaceous with lanceolate 

 ferruginous or dark-brown even or crisped scales, stipites 

 from 2 inches to a span or a foot long stramineous partially 

 and deciduously scaly discoloured blackish at the base evi- 

 dently swollen and subarticulated at the junction of the 

 caudex, fronds coriaceous 3-4 inches to 1 foot long ^-1^ 

 inch in width elliptical or oblongo-lanceolate obtuse or acute 

 more or less attenuated at the base not unfrequently minutely 

 glanduloso-jjunctate especially beneath ; fertile frond some- 

 times equal in size to the sterile and nearly of the same 

 shape or smaller often on a longer stipes soriferous all over 

 the surface except on the costa, veins indistinct. — Siv. Syn. 

 Fil. pp. 10 and 192. t. \.f. 1 {a common Cape form). Willd. 

 Sp. PI. v.p. 107. Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 23. t. 5 [excellent). Fee, 

 Acrost. p. 30. Elaphoglossum, Moore. Olfersia, Fr. 

 Acrost. scmulum, BL Fil. Jav. p. 100. A. latifolium, Sw. in 

 Sc/irad. Journ. A. oblongum, Desv. A. laurifolium, P. 

 Thouars,Fl. Trist. d'Acunha,p. 31. Fee, Acrost. p. 37. /. 7. 

 /. 1. A. Gayanum,Fee, Acrost. p. 37- 1. 16. /. 2. ' A. aphle- 



