ACIIOSTICIIU.M, § KLAlMIOGLOSSd.M. 229 



broad-ovate or lanceolate concave lax ferruginous entire 

 scales large for the size of the plant, stipites distant slender 

 stramineous clothed with similar scales with the caudex but 

 smaller and more spreading I inch long of the sterile fronds, 

 2-3 inches long in the. fertile ; sterile fronds i-l-lj inch 

 long ovate or oblong-ovate obtuse carnoso-subcoriaccous ob- 

 tuse subcuneate at the base sparingly clothed with soft su]:)U- 

 late flexuose hair-like scales on both sides, veins manifest; 

 fertile fronds scarcely differing from the sterile ones which 

 however they overtop on account of the much longer sti- 

 pites. Hook.'ic. PI. t. 197. Fee, Acrost. p. 53. t. 22. f. 2. Ela- 

 phoglossum, Moore. 



Hal). Chacapojas, Peru, Mathews. New Granada, Purdie. — Evidently an 

 ally of J. ovatum, but with larger fronds and very different and much larger and 

 quite entire paleaceous scales. M. Fee criticizes my " mediocre figure " of this 

 well-inaiked Acrostichum, which, however, is extremely faithful, but imperfectly 

 printed. 



70. A. (Elaphoglossum) cardioplnjllum, Hook. ; caudex 

 long-creeping thicker than a crow's quill much (but not very 

 copiously) patently branched clothed with rather large im- 

 bricated oblongo-lanceolate concave scales, stipites 1-2 

 inches long near 3 inches of t\\Q fertile frond laxly paleaceous 

 with smaller and more subulate dark-brown scales ; sterile 

 fronds coriaceous glaucous or whitish-green 12-14 lines long 

 and broad-cordate or 4-5 lines long and deltoid or subrhom- 

 boid-ovate with black short subulate deciduous small scales 

 on the surface, costa prominent beneath, veins scarcely 

 manifest horizontally patent ; fertile fronds in size and shape 

 resembling the sterile ones. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 715. Elapho- 

 glossum, Moore. A. cochlearifolium. Fee, Qnie Mem. Foiiy. 

 Nouv. p. 2. t. 1. /'. 3 {sterile fronds only). Elaphoglossum, 

 Moore. 



Hah. Quitinian Andes, Jameson, n. 212 and 395, alt. 14,000 feet.— A well and 

 easily defined species, faithfully represented in our Ic. Plant., and, as far as the 

 sterile fronds are concerned, by M. Fee also. 



71. A. (Elaphoglossum) L/oe^se', Hook.; caudex very long 

 creeping thick as a sparrow's quill rarely branched rooting 

 the younger portions paleaceous with lanceolate acuminate 

 ferruginous subcrisped scales, stipites remote pale strami- 

 neous slender 2-5 inches long 5-8 of the fertile frond sub- 

 squarrose with similar but smaller more or less deciduous 

 scales ; sterile fronds firm-mem1)ranaceous in the older ones 

 subcoriaceous pale-green 2-1 inches U)ng deciduously scaly 



