230 ACROSTICUUM, § ELAPHOGLOSSUM. 



with scattered small subulate blackish-brown scales especially 

 beneath (not at the margin), f-1 inch broad lanceolate or sub- 

 ovato-lanceolate more or less gradually acuminated cuneate 

 at the base entire with a thickened marginal line having a 

 slender pellucid external edge, costa very distinct, veins 

 slightly prominent patent simple or forked extending to and 

 united with the marginal thickened line ; fertile fronds much 

 smaller f-2i inches long narrow oblong-lanceolate on sti- 

 pites much exceeding the whole sterile fronds in height. 

 Hook. Ic. PI. t. 657 (« small narrow-fronded specimen). Fee, 

 Gen. Fil.p. 43. Kl. in Linncea, xx. p. 425. (Olfersia repens, 

 Kl. in Herb, nostr.) 



Hab. Valley of Lloa, Ecuador, and temperate forests of the Andes, Jameson. 

 Peru, Matliews. Venezuela, Fendler, n. 28G. Columbia, Moritz, n. 286 (very 

 fine specimens, with the broadest fronds). — A very distinct and well-marked 

 species, but of which specimens with the smallest and narrowest fronds in the 

 Ic. Plantarum are only given. The nature of the venation would almost justify 

 its being placed in § Aconiopteris. 



72. A. (Elaphoglossum) Harhvegii, Fee ; " fronds lanceo- 

 late obtuse thick opaque attenuated at the base long-stipitate 

 scaly beneath naked above, scales densely imbricated thick 

 oval scariose at the margin rufous in the centre entire ; 



fertile ones shorter and more obtuse but with longer stipites, 

 stipites in both scaly, scales ovate laxly imbricate patulous at 

 the base, caudex repent somewhat branched thick as a crow's 

 quill clothed with fuscous scales." Fee, Acrost. p. 53. t. 9. 

 /■ 2. Elaphoglossum, Moore. 



Hab. Columbia, i?a>-/we9, ». 1480, I486.' Moore gives other localities, and 

 Mexico, Galeotti, n. 6265 (bearing the name of A. muscosum). — Our specimens 

 from Hartweg (n. 1486) have a long, creeping, black, tortuous caudex, as thick 

 as a goose-qnill, with glossy, dark brown, subulate scales ; sterile fronds 2 inches 

 long and rather linear than lanceolate, on stipites 4 inches long; fertile fronds 1^ 

 inch long, on stipites 6 inches long. Our specimens n. 1480 are a good deal 

 larger, and the fertile fronds more than 4 inches long, still 1 cannot look upon 

 these two as specifically ditt'ereat. 



73. A. (Elaphoglossum) Matheivsii, Fee; "fronds uni- 

 form thick opaque lanceolato-linear obtuse acute at the base ; 

 sterile ones smaller, whole plant ferrugineo-squamose, all the 

 scales scariose toothed at the margin, those on the frond ad- 

 pressedly imbricated, those of the stipites long subpatulous, 

 those of the scandent flexuose caudex (thick as a crow's 

 quill) laxly imbricated glossy of an intensely brown colour 

 acute serrated at the margin." Fee, Acrost. p. 54. t. 2. f. 2. 

 Elaphoglossum, Moore. 



