216 ACROSTICIIUM, § ELAPHOGLOSSUM. 



flexuose slightly paleaceous ; fertile fronds papyraceo-niem- 

 branaceous dark-green younger ones vernicose oblong acu- 

 minate 3-6 inches long \-\\ inch wide subcaudato-acuminate 

 entire minutely punctato-glandulose, the base narrowly at- 

 tenuated slightly thickened at the margin, costa slender very 

 distinct uniting with the margin ; fertile fronds much smaller 

 1-2 inches long narrow-oblong obtuse. — A. micradenium, 

 Fee, Acrost.p. 43. t. 8. _/', 1 {sterile fronds only). Elapho- 

 glossum, Moore. E. nitidum, Brack. Fit. U. S. Expl. Exp. 

 p. 70. t. 9. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands, Gaudichaud, Brackenridge, Hillebrand. Sumatra, 

 Teschemacher (sterile). — A very well marked species, remarkable for the papyra- 

 ceous texture of the fronds, especially of the younger ones, which are, moreover, 

 vernicose. 



44. A. (Elaphoglossum) stiymatolepis, Fee; "s/en/e fronds 

 membranaceous papyraceous lanceolate acuminate acute at 

 the base, the margin entire slightly revolute, costa depressed 

 clothed with lateral scattered ovate scales subglabrous on 

 both sides marked with reddish dots (scars of fallen scales), 

 veins slender not attaining the margin turgid pellucid and 

 punctiform at the apex ;ye/-/i/e ones lanceolate narrower long- 

 cuneate at the base, stipites equal in both depressed canali- 

 culato-striated sulcate at the base blackish with scales, cau- 

 dex creeping bearing branched tomentose fibrous roots." — 

 Fee. Acrost.p. 62. t. 24. /'. 2. Kze. in Linncea, xxiv. jo. 248. 

 Elaphoglossum, Moore. 



Hab. Nt'ilglierries (/^ei?), to which Kunze adds Java. — Fee represents the stipites 

 5-7 inches long, the fronds 6 inches long, 8-10 lines wide. Unknown to me. 



B. Fronds linear. 45-58. 



45. A. (Elaphoglossum) Herminieri, Bory ; caudex very 

 stout short subrepent clothed with a very dense fulvous mass 

 of long linear silky scales, stipites very short almost none 

 tufted; sterile fronds coriaceous glabrous 1^-3 feet long 

 1-1 1 inch wide linear ensiformi long-acuminated and below 

 very long-attenuated so as to form a winged stipes, costa 

 broad and as well as the short stipes complanate ; fertile 

 fronds very short but broader in proportion 3-4 inches long 

 1-1 i inch wide elliptical subacute, their stipes only a few lines 

 long. — Bory, in Fee, Acrost. p. 43. t. 11. 



ITab. Tropical America: Guadeloupe, L Herminier : Cuba, C. Wright, n. 971 ; 

 Guiana, Le Prieur, Appun ; Brazil, Blanchet (Fee). — A very noble species, but 

 the fertile fronds look hke dwarfs amidst the noble tufts of sword-shaped sterile 



