ACROSTICIIUM, § ELAIMIOOLOSSIM. 2.39 



ohlongo-linear acuminate nicnibranaceous lax, the niaro-in 

 rejiand, veins tliick standing at an angle of 80°-85°, scales 

 aureous remote stellately fringed above adhering to the frond, 

 at the base very long attenuated upon the stipes, stipes hir- 

 sute with narrow lacerated patulous scales ; fertile fronds 

 narrower acute at both extremities squamose, scales as in the 

 sterile, caudex creeping scaly/' Fee. — Kze. in IJnncea, ix. /;. 

 28. F(k', Acrost. v. 59. Elaphoglossum, Moore. Olfersia, 

 Pr. 



Mali. Peru, Pceppir/. St. Gcibriel, Am.izoii, Spruce, n. 2185. Mexico {Fee). 

 — 1 possess only a barren specimen of this from Kiinze, but I cannot doubt tliat 

 my very fine jilant from Spruce is identical with this, though somewhat more 

 coriaceous. The scales are deeply fringed, constituting rather stellated hairs than 

 scales, particularly abundant on the tinder side, near tiie base of the frond, and of a 

 fine aureofulvous colour. On the stipes, however, the fine stellated hairs are mixed 

 with narrow, fringed, lacerated scales, and a few of such appear on the upper 

 side of the frond ; stipitcs of the sterile fronds 2-1 inches long, of the fertile 

 fronds twice that length; sterile fronds 12-15 inches long, l^-l.V inch wide, 

 much attenuated at the base ; fertile frond 10 inches long, 5 lines wide, obtuse, 

 attenuated at the base, 



90. A. (Elaphoglossum) eryihrolepis, Fee; "fronds linear 

 acute at each extremity ; sterile ones with the margins pli- 

 cate above clothed with rubricose ovato-ciliated scales some- 

 times palmate at the base obtuse beneath more copious laxly 

 imbricated and paler as on the stipites, caudex creeping 

 thick as a pigeon's quill, the scales blackisii-brown rigid 

 thick scarcely ciliated." — Fee, Acrost. p. 60. 



Hab. " Peru, Dombeyy — " C'est uno bonne es])ece, qui demande ;\ itre com- 

 pk'tee." I fear too much stress is apt to be laid on the form of the scales, and 

 that too many species are formed on very imperfect materials in this very variable 

 group. 



91. A. (Ela])hoglossum) squamosum, Sw. ; caudex short 

 thick horizontal or ascending, the portion nearest the stipes 

 clothed with subulate glossy subulate castaiieous scales, stipites 

 2-4 inches, of the /i^r/i/c' fronds 4-6 inches long clothed with 

 bright ferruginous (sometimes intensely black) linear-lanceo- 

 late scales, small compact ones being mixed with larger and 

 spreading ones all long and most beautifully plumoso-ciliated, 

 scales of the same two kinds cover the whole of the fronds 

 (save the soriferous laminal very copious at the margins and 

 they are sometimes pale-tawny on the upper side or on both 

 sides aureo-nitent. the larger or longer scales generally al)oiit 

 the costa often there mixed M-ith ebony-black ones, fronds 

 coriaceo-membranaceous, ster'ile ones r)-8-9 inches lonu; •J-l 



