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dotricbum, Desv. {Fee). "A. aureum, Sieb. Ftl. Mart. n. 

 ■34(), and in Herb. 7ioftir." — Fee quotes Plum. Fil. t. 12G as 

 " bunn.^^ I should not have recognized it as representing n)y 

 specimens. 



Hah. Martinique, Plumior?, Sifiher. Fee gives Mauritius, Commerson. — My 

 only specimens are a single sterile and ferlile frond from Sieber, Martinique ; 

 and these seem to partake in some degree of the nature i)oth of yl. hybridum 

 and of A. scolopeiidrifoliii III, and it is said to inhabit both Mauritius and the 

 West Indies. In size and lexture it best accords with the former; in the crinite 

 scales on the surface of the frond it is most allied to the latter: hut these scales 

 are shorter than in either of the others, and on the stipes much more copious 

 and persistent than in A. hybridum. The very remotely placed veins, too. are 

 quite remarkable. In A. scolopendrifolhim they are two or three times closer 

 than here. 



38. A. (Elaphoglossum) apoduin, Klfs. ; caudex thick 

 knotty densely ferrugineo-paleaceous with very long narrow- 

 linear subulate soft crisjjed scales, stipites costtB beneath the 

 margins especially and sometimes the under side of the sterile 

 fronds ferrugineo-villose with soft setaceous hairs which are 

 often deciduous ; sterile fronds firm-membranaceous rarely 

 subcoriaceous 1-1 1 foot long \\-2h inches wide in the 

 broadest part above the middle oblongo-spathulate acuminate 

 a little thickened at the margin below gradually tapering into 

 a short stipes 1-2 inches rarely more long, veins united at 

 the summit with the thickened' margin ; fertile fronds much 

 smaller glaljrous 4-8 inches long (never attaining to the 

 height of the sterile fronds) tapering into a stipes 2-6 inches 

 long.— A7/s. En. Fil. p. 59. Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 99. 

 Fee, Acrost. p. 42. Elaphoglossum, Schott. Moore. Ol- 

 fersia, Pr. Acrost. platyiieurum, Fee, p. 45. t. 4. /. 1. 



Ilab. AVest Indian Islands: Montserrat (Ryan)- St. Vincent, L. Ouildiiiy; 

 Jamaica. M'Fadi/en, JJ'il.ion, Purdie ; Cuba, Linden, n. 2056, C. Jf'riyht, n. 967. 

 Venezuela, Fend'ler, u. 430. Brazil, Para, Spruce, n. 9, 16, San Gabriel, n. 2186 

 (very fine specimens). — The Brazilian specimens are peculiarly fine. Fee is dis- 

 posed to refer the A. melanos/ictum, Bl. (Fil. Jav. t. 7), to this; but that is quite 

 gIal)rous, and the sterile fronds are alone known. The venation, too, if correctly 

 described, is different. The ./. platyneuron of Fee seems in no way whatever 

 distinct from tliis. 



39. A. (Elaphoglossum) stenopteris, Kl. ; caudex stout 

 short scaly, stipites terminal ctespitose very short scarcely h 

 an inch long subsquarrose with patent ovate acuminated 

 scales which become narrow and subulate on the back of the 

 base of the costa, fronds as well as the stipites nearly uni- 

 form in the sterile fronds firm-membranaceous 1-H foot 

 lonij 6-9 lines wide in the middle linear-ensiforni acumi- 



