ACROSTICHUM, § EL A PHOGLOSSUM. 207 



lanceolate fvl)ruptly acuminate obliquely cuneate at the base 

 long-stipitate, veins not extending to the margin turgid at 

 the apices resinose terminated with a black dot." — Fee,Acrosl. 

 p. 38. t. 10./. 1. 



Hab. Bolivia, D'Orbigmj. — "Sterile frond nearly G inclies long and 1 inrh wide ; 

 its stipes 3.^ inches long : fertile frond 4 inches long, 1 wide, apiculated with a 

 sharp niucro ; stipes 7 inches long. Caudex unknown." 



26. A. (Elaphoglossum) stiintatum, Bory ; ''fronds lan- 

 ceolate rather obtuse attenuated at the l)ase very long stipi-' 

 tate, veins minute placed at an angle of 45° scaly on the 

 upper ^i^lq; fertile {sterile?) ones with wltite scariose scales; 

 fertile ones with ferruginous scales, stipites flexuose, scales 

 sharply dentate, caudex creeping flexuose scaly, the scales 

 rufous long-acuminate." Fee. — Bory, in Fee, Acrost. p. 38. t. 

 4. /. 3. 



Ilab. " Bourhon, Boryl" — " La discolorite des squames des lames sti'riles et 

 fertiles est un fait curieux: les poils qni se trouvent sur I'epispore constituent 

 anssi un fait singulier." The figure represents a long, creeping, paleaceous cau- 

 dex, thicker than a crow's quill ; stipites of the sterile fronds 5-7 inches long, of 

 the fertile fronds 9 inches long ; fronds uniform, 4-5 inches long, { an inch 

 wide. 



27. A. (Elaphoglossum) petiolosum, Desv. ; caudex hori- 

 zontal or subascending densely clothed with purple-black 

 glossy subulate scales, stipites aggregated slender subulato- 

 squamulose 4-5 to 6-7 inches long of the sterile fronds; sterile 

 fronds 2-3 inches long i-j inch wide ol)long coriaceous 

 opaque suddenly terminated by a narrow-linear acumen at 

 the apex h an inch and more long obtuse at the base a little 

 repand and setoso-subserrulate at the margin ; fertile fronds 

 smaller H-2 inches long broader with a short acumen, veins 

 a little curved parallelo-furcate. — Desv. Joitrn. Bot. 1813. p. 

 271. Fee, Acrost. p. 38. t. 14. /. 1. Olfersia, Pr. Acrost. 

 caudatum. Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 215. Elaphoglossum, Moore. 

 Fee, Acrost. p. 39. 



Hal). "Peru, J. de Jussieit." Pilzhun, Ecuador, Jameson. — k well-marked 

 species, with a very long, linear apiculus to the fronds, and almost jet-black, 

 scales to the caudex. 



28. A. (Elaphoglossum) Tambillcnse, Hook. ; caudex as 

 thick as a man's finger copiously radiculose erect or ascend- 

 ing very paleaceous with rich-brown glossy subulate some- 

 what crisped scales, stipites aggregated slender stramineous 

 quite ghdjrous 2-3 inches long (shorter in tlie fertile ones) 

 spreading and subflexuose ; sterile fronds 2.^-3 inches long 



