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ceous scales ; whereas my specimens have the scales (of a cinnamon-colour rather 

 than ferruginous) singularly appressed and compact, looking as if their ciliated 

 margins had been worn away more or less, and as if what remained, though 

 quite covering the surface, were glued, as it were, to it. These close compact 

 scales have sometimes a black spot upon them, and somelimes they are mixed 

 with little black scales. This is the case with my authentic specimens from 

 Kunze. My most perfect specimens are from Fendler and from Spruce. In these 

 the caudex is stout, black, creeping, clothed with copious, intensely black, falcate, 

 narrow, subulate, glossy scales ; slipites, sterile and fertile, nearly equal, very 

 deciduously scaly ; sterile fronds nearly 2 feet long, 3 inches wide, destitute of 

 scales above ; fertile fronds 1 foot long, 1^ inch wide. 



83. A. (Elaphoglossum) curvans, Kze. ; "sterile frond 

 linear-oblong cuspidate, the margin subrepand coriaceous 

 subglabrous above, rather glossy pale-coloured beneath, 

 densely ferrugineo-squamose, scales ciliated, costa and long 

 stipes clothed with scales having a pellucid border ; fertile 

 fronds linear above densely nigrescenti-squamose curved at 

 both extremities, caudex creeping densely nigro-paleaceous." 

 — Kze. in Linncea, ix. p. 30. Fee, Acrost. p. 58. Elapho- 

 glossum, Moore. 



Hah. Peru, Pooppig. — Stipes of the sterile frnnd 6-8 inches long, fertile one 

 7-10 inches; sterile frond 10-12 inches long, 10-14 lines wide; fertile frnnd 

 6-7 inches long, 4-6 lines wide. The curvation of the frond is remarkable and 

 constant." My solitary specimen from Kunze is peculiarly straight in its frond, 

 and it is in too imperfect a state to allow me to form any judgment upon it. 

 Kunze compares it to^. squamatiim, Sw.,but says it differs in the cuspidate and, 

 above, subscaleless fiond, and in size. 



84. A. (Elaphoglossum) elongatum, Kze.; ^'sterile frond 

 linear-oblong cuspidato-acuminate at the apex, coriaceous 

 densely patenti-venose above sparingly and minutely squa- 

 mose margined, with the margin scalybeneath pubescent with 

 very minute lacerated squamules ; fertile frond conform 

 narrowed above more densely albo-squamose, the margin 

 nearly free from scales, costa sulcate channelled beneath, 

 stipites of each frond very long and together with the costa 

 of the sterile plant canaliculate densely squamuloso-pilose, 

 scales larger scattered blackish.^^ — Kze. in Linncea, ix. p. 31. 

 Fee, Acrost. p. 58. Elaphoglossum, Moore. 



Hab. Peru, Paeppig. — " Sterile frond 1 foot long, 14 lines wide ; fertile frond 

 shorter, 5 lines broad." Fee compares the species with A. dissimile, but says the 

 spores differ. 



85. A. (Elaphoglossum) Bellermanniamim, Kl. ; caudex 

 short thick horizontal or ascending ferrugineo-paleaceous, 

 stipites aggregated 2-5 inches long, of the fertile fronds 6-9 

 inches long, squamose with two kinds of scales some small 



