226 ACROSTICHUM, § ELAPHOG LOSSUM. 



species, yet appearing very distinct in the form so well represented by Dr. Gre- 

 ville in Ic. Fil. 



64. A. (Elaphoglossum) jn- ocni'r en s, M etten. ; caudex very 

 long filiform creeping thick as a sparrow's quill slightly 

 branched paleaceous with glossy bright aureo ferruginous 

 subulate spreading scales, stipites remote 1-3 inches long 

 very slender winged above with the decurrent frond scarcely 

 longer in the sterile plant, villous with spreading ferruginous 

 narrow subulate hairs and the same are scattered rather co- 

 piously over the fronds on both sides and margins ; sterile 

 fronds membranaceous bright pale-green 1-3 (-6, Metten.) 

 inches long ovate or oblong spathulate obtuse entire much 

 attenuated and decurrent at the base, costa very slender, 

 veins conspicuous rather distant patent clubbed at the apex 

 and terminating close to but just within the margin. — Met- 

 ten. in Eat. Fil. IVright. et Fencll. p. 195. Elaphoglossum, 

 Moore. 



Hab. Cuba, Fendler, n. 793. — This very pretty Jcrosticltum is peculiar in its 

 very long creeping caudex, clothed with bright, subulate, spreading scales. The 

 fronds of some of the smaller specimens are almost identical with those of A. pi- 

 loselloides, while the larger ones quite resemble those of the A. Morifzianum, of 

 Eat. in Fil. Wright, et Fendl. p. 194,— Cuba, C. Wrkjht, n. 1040 (a form, I fear, 

 of A. villomm), — not of Eat. 1. c. Fendl. n. 206, which is the ordinary form of vil- 

 losum; and Mettenius seems to take a similar view of the species. 



65. A. (Elaphoglossum) Plumieri, Fee; caudex short thick 

 horizontal or ascending forming a knot at the summit clothed 

 with a few ferruginous narrow scales, stipites densely tufted 

 slender 2-4 inches long villous with copious long slender pa- 

 tent ferruginous hairs ; sterile fronds thin membranaceous 

 pellucid 5-6-8 inches long |-| of an inch wide narrow-lan- 

 ceolate obtusely acuminate much attenuated below, the mar- 

 gin sublobato-sinuate fringed with soft spreading ferruginous 

 subulate hairs which are also scattered over both surfaces 

 ratlier copiously, costa slender, veins conspicuous rather 

 thick erecto-patent very distant simple or forked clavate at 

 the apex and terminating within the margin ; fertile though 

 often on a rather longer stipes yet is much smaller 1-2 inches 

 long oblong obtuse very aureo-villous on the back. — Fee, 

 Acrost. p. 50. Elaphoglossum, Moore. — Plum. Fil. p. 110. 

 t. 107. 



Hal). St. Domingo, Plumier, L'llerminier, in Ilerh. nostr. — M. Fee blames 

 Dr. Swartz and the authors of the ' Icones Filicum ' for quoting Plumier's figure 

 now cited under A. villosum, though we did not do so without adding the remark, 

 " vix bona quoad marginem et hirsutiem." M. Fee was so fortunate as to receive, 



