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glandular and subviscid./er/zVe fronds much overtopping the 

 sterile fronds from the longer stipites 3-4 inches long nar- 

 rower than they and more finely attenuated upon the stipes, 

 veins indistinct but slightly prominent beneath. — A7. in 

 Linnan, xx. p. 421. Elaphoglossum, Moore. 



Hal). Merida, Columbia, Moritz {in Herb, nostr., from Klotzsch). Vervi, Ruiz, 

 Herb. n. 54 {fide Moore). — I liave drawn up my character of this from one of 

 Moritz's original specimens. Though the author, Dr. Klotzsch, assigns no reason 

 for calling this plant " Calar/uala,^' it is presumed he does so from a conviction of 

 its being the Calaguala Jl/ediana of the Peruvian pharmacy, described under that 

 head and with tlie botanical name of Acroslichiim /Inasseno by Ruiz, and pub- 

 lished in Lambert's work onChinchona, p. 128 {Elaphoglossum Ruizianum, Moore, 

 Ind. Fil. p. 353, name only). I possess from Dr. Jameson, Quitinian Andes, n. 

 44, a nearly allied, if it be not really a distinct species, with a very long, stout, 

 apparently scandent candex, paleaceous or rather densely crinite with long, narrow, 

 dark-brown, lax and very falcate, glossy scales, quite different from those of A. 

 Calaguala, and which extend somewhat up the stipites, gradually upwards be- 

 coming smaller, slenderer, and paler-coloured, and mixed with some broad peltate 

 ones ; the fronds are longer than those of Calaguala, and the younger ones are 

 scurfily lepidote on the upper side, towards the margin are small broad-subulate 

 scales ; beneath, the fronds are very minutely glanduloso-punctate ; stipites of the 

 fertile fronds a span long. Neither are ray sjjccimt'ns sutHcient, nor is Ruiz's 

 description sufhciently minute to settle the point of identity. Pritzel, indeed, 

 refers to publislied figures of Ruiz's plant, viz. Bert. Amoen. It. 2, and Opusc. 

 Soc. IJon. t. 8 ; but I have no access to them. 



52. A. (Elaphoglossum) Auberiii, Desv. ; caudex horizon- 

 tal densely rooting paleaceous, stipites of the sterile fronds 

 stramineous short tufted crinite with long copious fulvous 

 patent subulate scales, the fronds firm-membranaceous 1-1 ^ 

 foot long 4-f i'l^h broad near the middle linear-lanceolate 

 finely acuminated moderately attenuated at the base and 

 there obtuse (not decurrent) sul)repand, costa very pale 

 sparsely paleaceous, veins conspicuous erecto-patent simple 

 or forked disappearing within the margin ; fertile fronds 2-3 

 inches long A-J of an inch wide elliptical-oblong obtuse or 

 acute on stipites 7-8 inches long. — Desv, Journ. Bat. 1813. 

 p. 2/2. Fee, Acrost. p. 45. t. 18. /. 1. Elaphoglossum, 

 Moore. Acrost. Klotzschii, Moritz, in Eat. Fil. IVrigJit. et 

 Fendl.p. 194. 



Hab. Tropical Africa: Bourbon, " /?<??-?i/er," e/e./ Zaml)esi, on tlie vegetal)le 

 mould among the dense jungle of Mount Dzomba, alt. G500 feet. Dr. Kiri-, ?/» 

 Livingstone's Ecp. (sterile). East tropical Africa: Fernando Fo, alt. 7000 feet on 

 tlin Peak, G. Mann, n. 662. Tropical America: Venezuela, /'e«r//er, /». 265,281, 

 Funck and Sc/ilim, n. 968. — I agree with Moore in referring here the Fendi^rian 

 A. Klotzschii of South America, but I can almost perceive a passage between 

 this and A. lineare. Fee,— not very well figured in his ' Ilistoire des Acro- 

 stichees.' 



