234 ACROSTICHUM, § ELAPHOGLOSSUM. 



centre; those of the costa and margin are longer, more loosely imhricated, and 

 reddish in the centre." It would require copious specimens to ascertain if many 

 of these marks are not variable. 



79. A. (Elaphoglossun-i) heterohjns. Fee ; candex stout 

 black more or less clothed with close-pressed black rigid su- 

 bulate scales, stipites 3-5 inches long, of the ftrtik fronds 

 15 inches, clothed with small ciliato-laciniated appressed 

 whitish ovato-subulate scales with or viithout a reddish dot 

 in the centre mixed with much longer linear-subulate falcate 

 more or less ciliated ones with a black line in the centre, up- 

 wards on the stipes the dark line is much paler; sterile irowds 

 9-15 and even 20 inches long 1-1^ inch wide oblongo-lanceo- 

 long niore or less obtuse or obtusely acuminated attenuated 

 below coriaceous clothed on both sides but most densely on 

 the under side with similar scales to those of the stipes 

 but the narrow elongated ones are chiefly confined to the 

 costa beneath and are straight spreading horizontally with 

 a pale reddish Hne down the centre, the ciliated margin of 

 all the scales varies in degree ; feriileivouds 6-8 inches long 

 ^-| of an inch wide elongate- or linear-oblong similarly 

 scaly on the upper side and nearly as much so on the lower 

 side in the younger state of the fructification, but the scales 

 are obliterated as the fructification advances except the 

 costal ones which are very copious and conspicuous. — Fee, 

 Acrcst.p. 36. t. 15. /. 1. Sieb. FL Mixta, n. 281 {Fee). 



Hab. Bourbon, Bory. — 1 possess fine specimens of this plant well figured by 

 Fee, under the names of J. ionieviosum and oi A. obdiictum, from the Paris 

 herbarium, and oi A.mocrokpis, of Bojer, ms. ; and hence I lielieve Mr. Moore 

 I'.as transferred those synonjnis to A. obdvctvm, Klfs., retaining, however, the 

 A. heierolepis of Fee, to which our plants certainly belong. — See our remarks on 

 A. obductum (n. 86). 



80. A.(Elaphoglossum)L6'??/75o'or^?,Hook. andGrev.; cau- 

 dex creeping stout black densely clothed with long brownish- 

 black long ciliated glossy subulate scales, stipites 4-6 inches 

 longofthe/67-ifi/e fronds 8-10 inches long copiously paleaceous 

 with ovate or ovato-lanceolate finely ciliated lax scales vary- 

 ing in size of an aureo-ferruginous colour; sterile fronds co- 

 riaceous S-10 inches to a foot and more long |-H inch wide 

 lanceolate more or less elongated clothed on both sides more 

 densely and more permanently beneath with the same kind 

 of scales as to form and colour as the stipes the largest 

 being attached to the costa all of them have a deeper tawny 

 spot in the disk, upper surface often in age quite denuded ; 



