232 ACROSTICHUM, § ELAPHOGLOSSUM. 



culiar to elevated regions. My var. )3, if I am correct in referring it here, is re- 

 markable for the great length of the caudical scales, sometimes resembling long, 

 soft, rich brown hairs, for the breadth and subelliptical form of the sterile fronds, 

 and the brighter colour of the scales. 



In Karsten's Fil. Columb., that author's distinctions are so finely drawn between 

 his A. Lindiffii, t. 3, A. Engeln,A. rujie^tre, and A. deorsum, t. 59, and A. caulo- 

 lepis and A. truncicola, Karst.,and even his A.lepidohim, \A^illd., that, beautiful 

 as the figures are and laboured as are the descriptions, I must decline any attempt 

 to refer them to acknowledged species. 



75. A. (Elaphoglossum) plumosum, Fee; caudex stout 

 as thick as a man's little finger or towards the extremity as a 

 man's thumb densely fibroso-radicant and sparingly palea- 

 ceous with broad-lanceolate rather long memljranaceous fer- 

 ruginous ciliated scales, stipites 2-3 inches at the summit .of 

 the sterile 8-10-12 inches in the fertile, shaggy with pale- 

 tawny large ovate plumosely ciliated lanceolate scales mixed 

 vrith smaller ovate appressed ones, soft and equally and most 

 beautifully plumoso-ciliate fas are all the scales) ; sterile 

 fronds subcarnoso-membranaceous 8-12 inches long 1-1 4 

 inch wide lanceolate obtusely acuminated long attenuated 

 and decurrent at the base often injured and proliferous at the 

 apex pedeaceous on both sides most copiously beneath and at 

 the margins (partially deciduous above) with rather small 

 linear-ovate ciliated scales, a few longer and more linear ones 

 are attached to the costa ; fertile fronds overtopping the ste- 

 rile ones from the great length of the stipes 5-6 inches long 

 about 5 lines wide linear obtuse ; the paleaceous indument 

 varies in colour from pale-tawny to bright-ferruginous. — Fee, 

 Acrost. p. 54. /. 2./. 1. Elaphoglossum, Moore. A. Wag- 

 neri, Kze. ? 



Hab. Guiana, SchomburgJc, n. 446, Appun, n. 190. Amazon, Barra, Sprtice, 

 n. 1770, and San Gabriel, on small trees, rarely on the ground, Spruce, n. 2397. 

 — Certainly one of the most beautiful and distinct of the genus. 



76. A. (Elaphoglossum) perelef/ans. Fee ; "sterile fronds 

 elongato-oblong lanceolate membranaceous subpapyraceous 

 acute at the apex attenuated at the base punctated beneath 

 on both sides sparingly squamose, the margin flexuose, scales 

 aureous lacerated at the superior margin, stipites canaliculate 

 clothed with patulous scales scarcely so long as the frond, 

 costa helveolous scaly above with a narrow groove, veins 

 arcuate approximate ; /er/i/e fronds longer linear narrower, 

 at the apex and at the base acute clothed above with lace- 

 rated scales, caudex thick sending out very long rooting 

 fibres." Fee,Acrost.p.55.t.2'i^. Elaphoglossum, ilfoore. A. 



