206 ACROSTICHUM, § ELAPHOGLOSSUM. 



chartaceo-coriaceous discoloured obovato-elliptical ol^tuse at 

 tlie apex acute at the base, the margin entire decurrent upon 

 the short stipes which is black at the l^ase, veins scarcely- 

 conspicuous standing at an angle of SG° ; fertile ones lan- 

 ceolate rounded at the base brown beneath, stipites nigres- 

 cent, caudex creeping." — Fee, Acrost. p.S6. t. 6.f. 1. 



Hab. Cumana, Funck, n. 642. Venezuela, Fendler, n. 429, Moore (I do not 

 find this in Eat. Fil. Wright, et Fendler.). — " Cette espece est parfaitement dis- 

 tincte ; cependant nous eussions vouhi la decrire d'apres plusieurs specimens. 

 Peut-etre la discolorite des froiules est-elle due a des causes accidentales ?" The 

 figure might well pass for a small specimen of A. latifoUum or a large one of A. 

 conforme. 



23. A. (Elaphoglossum) Lepervanchii, Bory ; "fronds co- 

 riaceous rigid glabrous terminating in a short rigid acumen 

 attenuated or decurrent at the base or elliptical or oblongo- 

 lanceolate, with the margin semirevolute ; fertile ones equal 

 in size or scarcely longer and narrower, veins on the upper 

 surface impressed atrofuscous, caudex paleaceous thick as a 

 goose-quill uneven clothed as well as the stipites with broad 

 caducous scales." Fee. — Bory, in Fee, Acrost. p. 37. t. 9. 

 /. 1- 



Hab. Bourbon, Bory. — " Cette espece a de grands rapports avec VA. glandu- 

 losum de Hooker: mais il n'y a point de glandes." Our A. glandulosum is an 

 acknowledged form oi A. conforme, winch varies with or without the minute 

 glandular scales. Is this otherwise different from that ubiquitous species .' 



24. A. (Elaphoglossum) didynamum, Fee ; " fronds ceespi- 

 tose rigid glabrous ; sterile ones lanceolate acute at both ends 

 coriaceous fulvous when dry, the margin subrevolute, stipes 

 short nodose (near the base ?) ; fertile fronds lanceolato- 

 linear acuminate rubricose above decurrent at the base, the 

 margin plane repand almost twice longer than the sterile, 

 caudex thick in the upper portion bearing the persistent 

 bases of the old stipites." — Fee, Acrost. p. 37- t. IQ.f. 2. 



Ilab. Bourbon. — "Cette plante a du rapport avec 1'^. Lepervanchii." — I 

 fear 1 shall weary ray readers with the constant references to A. conforme for 

 close affinities of so' many of M. Fee's supposed new species, at least as far as 

 can be judged from the author's figures and remarks. 



A. (jorgoneum, placed next to this species by Fee (Acrost. p. 38), is not the 

 plant of Kaulfuss, from the Sandwich Islands, which belongs to the Olfersia 

 group, l)ut is the gorgoneum of Blume, which again is A. conforme. 



25. A. (Elaphoglossum) notatum, Fee; "sterile fronds 

 ianceolato-oblong acute at each end stipitate beneath dotted 

 with narrow acute scales pale-red at the base ; /er///e ones 



