ACROSTICHUM, § E L AIMIOG LOSS l' M . 11)9 



bium,* Kl. in Linnceu, xx. p. 410. A. angustaturn, Schrad. 

 Sclilecht. Adumbr. p. 14. /. 5. Olfersia, P/'. Elaphoglossum 

 scniulum, Brack. Ftl. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 7^- Acrust. glan- 

 dulosum, Hook, and Grev. Tc. FIL t. 3. A. Cumingii, Fee, 

 Acrost. p. 34. A. ohtusifolium, /. Sin. [name onhj). Vit- 

 taria acrostichoides, Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 186 {abnor- 

 mal form with, the sori confined to two parallel lines distant 

 from the costa). Acrost. marginatum, Wall. Cat. n. 17- Fee, 

 Acrost. p. .31. Olfersia, Pr. A. angulatum, Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 

 25.^.6. Fee, Acrost. p. 52. Olfersia. P>-. Elapliuglossum, 

 Moore. A. Gorgoneum, Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 28. t. 8. F'e, 

 Acrost. p. 38. 



Hah. Cape of Good Hope, abundant. Tropical Africa: Prince's Island and 

 Brass, Barter, n. 1816; Mauritius, Carmichael ; St. Helena, /. D. Hooker, 

 Ilauyhton ; Tristan d'Acunha, P. Thouars, Carmichael, Milne. Java, Ceylon, 

 Blume, in Herb. Hook., nnder the incorrect name of " viscosum." Gardner, n. 

 1165. East Indies : Nepal, IVallich; Khasya, Hooker fil. and Thomson; Nil- 

 gliiri, Beddome, n. 106; Luzon, Cuming, n. 193; Sandwich Islands, Bracken- 

 ridge, Hillebraiid. Tropical America: Venezuela, Foidler, n. 277, 27S, 29a, & 

 (some of the fronds narrow-oblong, bright 2;reen) ; Ecuador, Spruce, n. b&6\, 

 Jameson (scales of the caudex almost black and appressed,even, in other respects 

 the same as the African plant); Andes of Peru, Maclean; Chili, C. Gay; Pa- 

 nama, S. Hat/es, n. 151 ; Northwest Mexi 'o. Sierra Madre, Seemann (quite the 

 African form and glanduloso-punctate). — Fee limits the geographical pos'tion of 

 this Fern to the Cape Colony. I do not distinguish from that my specimens from 

 other countries here recorded, not even those of South America; and Blame's 

 figure from the Java plant cannot, I think, be called in question, nor Cuming's 

 n. 193, from Luzon. That it is a variable species cannot be denied, and some of 

 the Cape specimens I am really uiialjle to distinguish from .^. /a<//b//M?w ; nor 

 can I agree with M. Fee when he says, " Ou le reconnaitra facilement u ses 

 frondes epaisses, jaunatres, inferieurement terminccs en poiiite, a son petiole court 

 et aile, i\ sa marge plus ou moins crispee et a son rliizome rampant, convert 

 d'ccailles brunitres lachement imbriquees," — marks most of which are as common 

 to several other supposed species as to this. This perhaps may be considered a 

 type into which might safely merge, besides all those given in tlie synonyms, not 

 a few of the following species. 



9. A. (Elaphoglossum) Fefyee?2.se, Hook. ; " caudex a short 

 thick creeping paleaceous rhizome, stipites 3-5 inches long 

 semiterete paleaceous at the base, fertile ones longer 10-12 

 inches long, fronds coriaceous submarginate lepidote on both 

 sides; sterile ones a span long 1 inch broad oblongo-lanceo- 

 late obtuse narrowly angustate much attenuated at the base ; 

 fertile ones small oblong obtuse slightly attenuated at the 



* A. glabratum, Metten. Fil. Nov. Caled. p. 1, should perhaps rank near this, 

 of which the autlior says, " proximnm ./. aphlebio, Kze.. a qtio forma foliorum, 

 prjesertim fertilium rccedit. Ilab. New Calcilonia, Vieillard." 



