ACROSTICIIUM, § ELAPIIOGLOSSUM. 205 



furrow ; fertile fronds elongato-ovate obtuse sterile at the 

 cuneated base, the margin cartilagineo-dentate, stipes slender 

 longer (than the sterile), caudex thick paleaceous, scales 

 broad fulvous very long attenuated, their margins fibrillose." 

 — /'Ve,Acrost.p.35.t.5.f. 2 {not GaudA'). Elaphoglossum, 

 Moore. E. latifolium, J. Sin. in Lond. Joarn. of But. i. jo. 

 197 {according to Moore). 



ITab. Gn\a.ndi, Le Prieur, Schumburgk, n. 4i9. BravJ], Spruce, n. 2245 and 

 2869 (fertile fronds longer and narrower). Cuba, C. JVriyht, n. 969 (" A. alis- 

 mwfoliuni, Eat."). — Schoiiiburgk's specimens are the authority for this, and the 

 name is derived from the more or less winged character of the upper portion of 

 the stipes, arising from the decurrent base of the frond. A trifling circumstance, 

 I fear; and 1 am content, with J. Smith, to refer this species to small forms of 

 A. latifolium, or, with Eaton, to A. alismmfolium, or even to A. confunne. 



20. A. (Elaphoglossum) calophyllum, Kze. ; ''sterile fronds 

 linear-oblong attenuated at both extremities marginate paral- 

 lelo-patenti-venose, the base of the veins elevated pale be- 

 neath glabrous above; fertile ones long-stipitate oblong- 

 narrow, the stipes sparsely paleaceous channelled above, 

 caudex creeping paleaceous." Fee. — Kze. in Linncea, ix. p. 

 27. Fee, Acrost.p. 36. Elaphoglossum, Moore. 



Ilab. Peru, Poeppig. — I have no acknowledged specimen of this. 



21. A. (Elaphoglossum) simplex, Sw. ; caudex rather stout 

 creeping ferrugineo-paleaceous, fronds coriaceous very opaque 

 blackish-brown when dry, venation quite internal obsolete 

 lanceolate long decurrent at the base acuminate ; sterile ones 

 6-12 inches long, with stipites 1-4 inches \o\\g; fertile ge- 

 nerally smaller or shorter stipites and more obtuse, costa 

 reddish.— -S?^;. Syn. Fit. p. 10. Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 100. 

 Fee, Acrost. p. 8G. Hook. Gen. Fil. t. \Ob.A. Olfersia, 7V. 

 Elaphoglossum, Schott. Moore. Olfersia nigrescens, A7. in 

 Herb. Reg. Berol. et in Herb, nostr. 



llab. Jamaica, St. Vincent, Swarf:, Purdie, IVihon, Guilding. Brazil. — I 

 possess no autlienlic specimens of this Fern, and as there is no perfect figure of 

 it, some doubt will remain as to its determination. All I can say in favour of the 

 specimens I have in view being the plant, is that Dr. Grisebach has so named it, 

 and it will bear the name in his forthcoming volume of the ' Flora of the West 

 Indies.' It is of a dark chocolate-brown when dry, but, except in the more acu- 

 minated leaves, it is very closely allied to A. conforme. 



22. A. (Elaphoglossum) Funckii, Fee; "sterile fronds 



* The A. alatum. Gaud. (yf. sessile, Fee, name only), is a wretched figure, 

 without fructification and without description, given in the Voy. de la Bonite, t. 

 i:).'i, bv Gaudichaud, from the Sandwich Islands. 



