240 ACROSTICHUM, 



inch broad oblonw or oblongo-lanceolate moderately but 

 bluntly acuminated cuneate or often attenuated at the base, 

 fertile ones 4-8-10 inches long \ an inch broad linear-ob- 

 long copiously plumoso-squamose on the upper side obtuse 

 at both extremities. — Sw. in Schrad. Journ. 1800. ii. ^.11. 

 Sijn. Fit. p. 10. Schk. Fil. p. 184. t.l.b {execrable). Ela- 

 phoglossum, /. Sm. Moore. Olfersia paleacea et vestita, 

 Pr. A. hirtum, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 194 a7id 419. Jnild. Sp. 

 PL V. p. 104. Fee, Acrost. p. 61. A. vestitum (paleaceum 

 on the plate). Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 2.35. A. rufescens, 

 Liebm. Fil. Mex. p. 18. A. splendens, Bory, in Willd. Sp. 

 Pl.wp.lOA. Fee, Acrost. p. 60./. 21./. 2. Elaphoglos- 

 sum, Brack. Moore. Acrost. Meridense, 7i7. in Linmea, 

 XX. p. 427. 



Hab. Jamaica, frequent. Venezuela (A. Meridense), Fendlcr, n. 269 (the 

 smaller specimen doubtiul). Para, Spruce, n. 16. Ecuador, Valley of Lloa, 

 Jameson, Spruce. Mexico, Liehmann. BourI)on, on trees, Bory, in Herb, nostr. 

 Interior of Madagascar, Bojer. Sandwich Islands, frequent. Ceylon. Mrs. 

 Genl. IValker. Sumatra, Tescliemacher. India: Kumaoii, IVallich ; Nilghiri, 

 Beddume,n.\l . Madeira, Azores, abundant. West tropical Africa: Sugarloaf 

 Mountain (fronds long and narrow, very tapering below). Barter, in Baikie^s 

 Niger Exp.; Cameroon Mountains, alt. 6000 feet, G. Mann,n. 1378 (some of 

 the larger scales on the costa and on the stipes 4-5 lines long). — The chief 

 characteristics of this most beautiful species may he summed up in few words. 

 The linear-lanceolate scales co]iiously and most beautifully pectinato-pluniose, 

 but it must be confessed that with a very little variation in the scales it would he 

 very difficult to distinguish this from A . plumosum, 



92. A. (Elaphoglossum) vestitum, Schlecht. ; "fronds 

 linear-lanceolate long attenuate at the base acuminated at 

 the apex acute, on both sides clothed with lanuginous rufo- 

 ferruginous caducous tomentum ; fertile ones narrower of 

 about the same length as the sterile on longer stipites, cau- 

 dex abbreviated repent densely clothed with dilated ciliated 

 purpureo-fuscous scales." Fee. — Schlecht. in Linncea, v. p. 

 605 [fiof Loive, in Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil.). Elaphoglossum, 

 Schott. Moore. Olfersia, Pr. Acrost. fulvum, Mart, and 

 Gal. Fil. Mex. p. 24. t. 3./. 2. 



Hab. Mexico, Schiede and Deppe, Galeotti, " n. 6459." Jamaica, Grisebach, 

 in Herb, nostr. — Schlechtendal speaks of this Fern as " bi-tripedalis, stipitibus 

 semipedalilius ; frondibus sterilibus ad summum sesquipollicem, fertilihus quatiior 

 lineas latis." Galeotti's figure of A. fulvum gives no idea of such dimensions. 

 Fee, in his remarks, niodities the term"tomento lanuginoso vestitum " by the 

 expression, " les ecailles sout roussatres," etc.; and he further adds, " elle a 

 d'assez grandes rapports avec V A. splendens.'" My Jamaica specimen might, 

 indeed, pass for a starved state of the latter plant, but the species appears to be 

 a verv unsatisfactory one. 



