238 ACROSTICUUM, § ELAFHOGLOSSUM. 



87. A. (Elaphoglossum) adenolepis, Kze. ; " frond oblongo- 

 linear attenuated at the apex obtuse thick-coriaceous above 

 remotely beneath (as well as the long canaliculate stipes and 

 the rachis grooved above) densely le])idote, scales minute in 

 the middle glanduloso-brunneous silvery at the margin," 

 Kze. — (Fertile fronds unknown, and I fear the plant itself very 

 imperfectly so.) — Kze. in L'mnoea, ix. p. 27. Fee, Acrost. p. 

 59. 



Hah. Peru, Pceppig. — " Frond 1-2 feet long, 2 inches broad." " Espece fort 

 distiiicte." Fee. 



88. A. (Elaphoglossum) lepidotum, Willd. ; caudex short 

 thick creeping or ascending knotted clothed with black very- 

 glossy subulate falcate scales, stipites 2-.S inches, of the 

 fertile fronds more than 5 inches long, scurfy with scales of 

 two forms smaller ovate pale-brown and larger sul)lanceolate 

 and falcate generally with a black line down the middle both 

 more or less ciliated ; sterile fronds coriaceous 2- (rarely 6) 

 inches long 3 lines to ^ an inch wide linear oblong obtuse 

 or subacute obtusely cuneate at the base above clothed with 

 white (apparently blanched) papyraceous sometimes bright 

 tawny appressed lanceolate ciliated scales very copious at the 

 margin, beneath equally scaly with aureo-fulvous scales of the 

 same character frequently with a dark or black spot on the disk 

 especially on those of the costa; fertile fronds scarcely differ- 

 ing in size and shape from the sterile, equally scaly above and 

 copiously so on the costa beneath. — IVilld. Sp. PI. v. p. 102. 

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

 A. Dombeyanum, Fee, Acrost. p. 59. t. 17- /"• 2 {very rjood). 



Hab. Peru, Dombey, Fee. Ecuador, Pichincha, Jameaon, n. 232. On Mount 

 Aznay, alt. 13,000 feet, Columbia, Morits, n. 323 (" A. polylepis, Kze. Herb."). 

 " Venezuela {Linden), Truxillo et Merida, 1300-4800 (!) metres," Fee (under A. 

 Dombeyanum). — My specimen from Linden is marked " Caraccas (1842), n. 

 550 ;" hut n. 550 is quoted by Fee as A. rubiginosum, and by Moore as A. 

 Schiedei, Kze. It is, however, the very counterpart of Fee's figures of his 

 A. Dumbeyanum, t. 17, f. 2. It would not be easy to say exactly what is Wdl- 

 denow's A. lepidotum. It is probably the same as ours, and I think Moore has 

 (lone rightly in referring Fee's A. Dombeyanum to A. lepidotum. Indeed, the 

 author notices this reseinljlance, but gives as one of the essential differences that 

 A. Dombeyanum has only 11 articulations to the annulus of the capsules, A. le- 

 pidotum has 12-14. It is remarkable, too, that Fee gives Dombey as the autho- 

 rity for the discovery of A. lepidotum in Peru, but does not mention his name 

 under A. Dombeyanum. The present species appears to be eminently Andine, 

 and might almost be looked upon as a dwarfed form of A. Langsdorffii. 



89. A. (Elaphoglossum) anricomum, Kze. ; " sterile fronds 



