204 ACROSTICHUMj § EL APHOGLOSSUM. 



17- A. (Elaphoglossum) obf.im/oIinm,'Brac]i.. , s.n Bl.?; "cau- 

 dex stout short creeping paleaceous, stipites semiterete pa- 

 leaceous at the base, fronds coriaceous glabrous submarginate 

 obscurely lepidote obovato-oblong obtuse attenuated at the 

 base ; fertile ones narrower, and stipes longer, veins im- 

 mersed parallel and forked." — Elaphoglossum, iJracA:. Fil. U. 

 S. Expl. Ex}j. p. 72. Acrostichum, Willd. BL FL Jav. p. 31 

 [no figure). A. decurrens, BL FiL Jav. p. 32. ^. 10 {not of other 

 authors?). A. decurrens {var. yS, senior; nudum), Fee, 

 Acrost.p. 34 {e.rcL var. a, junior ; ornatum). 



Hab. Java, Blume. Fiji Islands, Ovalau, Brackenridge, Milne. — Great confusion 

 prevails respecting the Acrost. obtusifolium and A. decurrens of authors ; what 1 

 have in this work called A. decurreiis is certainly the A. decurrens, " a, junior, 

 ornatum," of Fee. But that appears to me quite different from the A . decur- 

 rens of Bl. Fil. Java, 1. c, of which the figure is an admirable representation of 

 Brackenridge's A. obtusifolium. Our specimens are in a perfect state and quite 

 glabrous, coriaceous ; stipites 2-3 inches long, those of the fertile fronds 6 

 inches ; sterile fronds 2^-6 inches long, 1^-2 inches wide, oval or obovate, very 

 obtuse; fertile fronds 2 inches long, -j-J of an inch wide. — Still I am rot in- 

 disposed to think that these may be a broad-fronded form of A. conforrne. 



18. A. (Elaphoglossum) flaccidum. Fee; caudex stout 

 thick as one's finger ascending or suberect (probably more 

 or less scandent) scaly frondiferous at the apex, stipites 

 scarcely any of the sterile frond, 3 inches to a span long in 

 the fertile jointed near the base; sterile fronds 10-12 inches 

 long firm-membranaceous \-\\ inch broad sparsely punc- 

 tato-squamulose beneath lanceolate or narrow-lanceolate 

 sharply acuminate long-tapering almost to the caudex below 

 subpellucid costate, costa somewhat slender, veins conspi- 

 cuous subhorizontal rather close-placed ; fertile .fronds ge- 

 nerally exceeding the sterile ones on account of the greater 

 length of the stipes and narrower. — Fee, Acrost.p. 35. t. 7 

 {very, accurate). Elaphoglossum, Moore. E. simplex, /. 

 Sm. — Var. y8, Lechlerianum ; caudex decidedly scandent. A. 

 Lechlerianum, Metten. Fil. Lechler. p. 3. A. oxyphyllum, 

 Brongn. in Herb, nostr. 



Hab. Guiana, Schomhurgk, n. 448, Sagot, n. 927, Appun. New Granada, 

 Purdie. Corrientes, Seemann, n. 1000. Brazil, San Gabriel, Spruce, n. 2187. — 

 Var. /8, Peru, Lechler, in Serb, nostr. — I fear there is no valid distinction be- 

 tween the A. Lechlerianum of Mettenius and A. flaccidum. 



19. A. (Elaphoglossum) alatum, Fee; "sterile fronds 

 lanceolato-ovate the margin repand the apex acute the base 

 long-decurrent cuneate, stipes winged grooved with a narrow 



