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elongated, and its scales excessively dense and uniform all over and of a bright 

 blackish-chestnut colour. 



G2. A. (Elaphoglossum) strictiim, Raddi ; "fronds simple 

 lierbaceous, sterile ones linear-laneeolate attenuated at each 

 extremity shortly petiolate(l,_/e/-^//f ones narrower linear rather 

 obtuse long-petiolate margined on each side squamoso-vil- 

 lous, scales lanceolate ciliated dift'erent on the petiole and the 

 costa, caudex creeping scaly." Fee. — Raddi, Fil. Bras. p. 3. 

 t. 15. /. 3. Acrost. p. 49. Mart. Crypt. Bras. p. 84. t. 22. 

 Elaphoglossum, Moore. 



Hab. Brazil, Raddi, Martins. — Imperfect as the above character may be, it is 

 perhaps the best that has yet appeared. The real plant seems very little known, 

 and the figures do not well illustrate this dubious species. 



63. A. (Elaphoglossum) viUosum, Sw. ; caudex stout sub- 

 repent or ascending often enlarged and forming a knot at 

 the summit which is paleaceous with ferruginous or dark- 

 brown narrow scales, stipites generally copious and tufted 

 from 2-4-5 inches long villous with long slender subulate 

 ferruginous hairs rather than scales, fronds membranaceous 

 pellucid varying in length and breadth 3-8-9 inches long and 

 from f-1 5 inch in diameter broad oblongo-lanceolate or rather 

 subspathulate and obtuse more frequently suddenly acumi- 

 nated cuneate at the base villous on both sides and at the 

 margin with aureo-ferruginous long subulato-setaceous but 

 soft silky hairs, costa slender, veins distinct moderately 

 jiatent distant simple or forked clavate at the apex and 

 terminating within the margin where a blackish spot a])pears 

 on the back of tlie frond, fertile frond much smaller acute 

 or obtuse upon a longer stipes yet never equalling the length 

 of the sterile frond. — Sin. Syn. Fil. p. 10. IFi/ld. Sp. PL v. 

 p. 103. Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 95 [cxcl. syn. Plum.). 

 Olfersia, IV. Elaphoglossum, Moore. A. Moritziaimm, A7. 

 in JAnn(ea,xx. p. 423. Elaphoglossum, Moore. A. setosum, 

 Liehni. Fil. Mex,p. 1 7. — Var. /3. Pceppigianuin ; fronds linear- 

 lanceolate, fertile ones linear. A. villosum, Kze. in Linnaa, 

 ix. p. 32. 



Ilab. Tropical America: Jamaica, Swartz, Bancroft, Menzies, Purdie ; Do- 

 minica, Br. Imray ; Cuba, C. IVi-ight, n. 1040 (fronds ordinary size, but spa- 

 thulate and obtuse) ; Venezuela, Fendler, n. 302 (fertile frond small, ovate), 

 and n. 2GlJ (common lorni) ; Ecuador, Andes of Quito, alt. 8000 feet, Jampson ,- 

 Mexico, Llebni'.nin. — Var. /3, Pwppigianum. I'eru, Pwppig. Tropical Africa, 

 Sierra Leone, Barter (stipites very dciisely villoso-paleaceous). — A variable 

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