202 ACROSTICHUM, § ELAPIIOGLOSSUM. 



above blackish, costa squamulose, scales lacerated." Fee, 

 Acrosi. ]). 33. t. 5. 



Hab. Martinique (Fee). — Unknown to me. The figure given by Fee very 

 mucli resembles rather narrow forms of A. latifolium. 



14. A. (Elaphoglossum) scandens, Bory ; " sterile fronds 

 remote ovato-lanceolate coriaceous glaucescent margined sub- 

 repand and plane at the edge, costa thick, veins approximate, 

 stipes squamose nodose and blackish at the base ; fertile 

 fronds lanceolate acute attenuated at the base with a longer 

 stipes, caudex scandent angular thick as a swan's quill clothed 

 with fulvo-ferruginous scales." Fee. — Bory, in Fee, Acrost. 

 p. 33. Elaphoglossum, Moore. A. Schhmense ?, Fee, Sme 

 Mem. Foug. Nouv. p. 68. 



Hab. Caracas, Linden, n. 74 (1842). New Granada, Schlim, n. G22 .' alt, 7000 

 feet. Guadeloupe, Fee. Ecuador, Spruce ? — My specimens of this Fern from 

 Linden are destitute of fertile fronds, and I am not certain that those I have 

 from Guiana, Schomburgk and l.e Prieur, are identical ; they present some dif- 

 ferences to characters given by Fee. The " petioles noduleux et noiratres a la 

 base " are common to many Acrosticha allied to A. confor-me. All my specimens 

 appear to have the caudex more or less scandent, frondiferous towards the apex. 

 My specimens also from Schlim I refer here doubtfully ; the number is quoted 

 by Fee, 1. c, but the character is very brief and unsatisfactory, " sterile and fer- 

 tile fronds of the same form, with close-placed veins, lanceolate-acute at the 

 summit and at the base ; margin entire and cartilaginous ; stipites short, whitish 

 (mine are 6-9 inches long, bright-tawny) scaly; caudex erect, scaly, bearing 

 close-placed fronds." Probably all may be considered forms of A. latifolium. 



]5. A. (Elaphoglossum) latifolium, Sw. ; caudex thick 

 creeping towards the apex especially densely clothed with 

 subcrisped thin membranaceous scales, fronds mostly termi- 

 nal on the caudex ; sterile ones including the stipes 1 or 2 

 and even 3 feet long and from 1-3 inches wide broad-lanceo- 

 late shortly and obtusely acuminated subcoriaceous very 

 opaqvie glossy paler beneath attenuated, at the base upon a 

 stipes varying in length from 2-6-8 inches which is often 

 scaly below and jointed a little above the caudex, costa ge- 

 nerally stout and prominent on the under side, veins simple or 

 forked close parallel rarely here and there anastomosing nearly 

 horizontal ; fertile fronds generally smaller and narrower 

 than the sterile, sori universal except on the costa. — Sw. Ft. 

 Lid. iii. p. 1589 [not Siv. in Schrad. Jour7i., which is A. con- 

 forme, from the Cape) . Syn. Fil. p. 9. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 

 105. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 42. A. longifolium, Jacq. Coll. p. 

 105. Elaphoglossum, /. Sm. Moore. Acrost. Lingua, 

 Raddi, Fil. Bras. p. 5. t. 15. f 4 {small, but characteristic). 



