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93. A. (Elaphoglossuni) succisrpfolmm, P. Th. ; caudex 

 creepin<T thicker than a swan's quill tortuose densely clothed 

 with imbricated l)lack subulate glossy scales, stipites aggre- 

 gated 2-3-4 inches long, 5-6 of the fertile fronds, very palea- 

 ceous with copious small furfuraceous scales and erecto- 

 patent larger lanceolate acuminated ones black with a pale 

 pubescenti-ciliated margin, fronds coriaceous ; sterile ones 

 3^-4 niches long 1-1 i inch wide elliptical-oblong or sublin- 

 guiform very obtuse at the apex and base, clothed pretty 

 uniformly on botli sides with fulvo-ferruginous scales of two 

 kinds smaller and furfuraceous ones and much larger lanceo- 

 lato-acuminated ones, downy at the margin and more or less 

 dentato-ciliated towards the base, ve^y copious on the costa; 



fertile fronds about the same length but much narrower and 

 equally obtuse and equally paleaceous on the upper side and 

 on the costa beneath. — P. Th. Fl. Trist. (PAcunha, p. SI. 

 Carm. in Linn. Trans, xii. 'p. 510. Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil. 

 t. 2. Fee, Acrost.p. 61. 



Ilah. Isle of Tristan d'Acunlia, P. Thouara, Carmichael, MacgiUivra]/, and 

 MHhp. — Du Petit Thouars gives Mauritius, asid IBory gives Bourbon, as the lo- 

 calities for this species. 



94. A. (Elaphoglossum) pilosum, H. B. ; "sterile fronds 

 flexuosc acute at each extremity griseous on long weak sti- 

 pites, on both sides paleaceous, scales x-eddish stellate lace- 

 rated to the naked eye looking like hairs (whence the name), 

 fertile ones linear-lanceolate acute attenuated at the base 

 scaly, stipites as long as the frond, caudex thick unequal 

 scaly, the scales fulvous lanceolate lacerated." Fee. — Hiinib. 

 et Bonpl. in Willd. Sp. PL v. ;;. 103. Fee, Acrost. p. 63. 

 Elaphoglossum, Moore. Olfersia, Pr. Moore refers to this, 

 and prohahh/ correctly, the A.cochleatum, Bory, in Fee, Acrost. 

 p. 63. t. 16'. f. 1. 



Ilab. New Andalusia, alt. CGOO feet, Humboldt mid Bonplnnd. Mexico, An- 

 drieihv, n. 31 (in Herd, nostr). Columbia (//. cochleatiun), Morifz, n. 30 

 (il/oore). — My si)eciinen of A. pilosum from Andrieux and Fee's figure of^^. 

 cochleatum, Bory, quite resemble each other, and have all the appearance of old 

 withered specimens, twisted and distorted by drought. In both the scales of the 

 caudex are broad and ferruginous and veiy copious. 



§ 2. LoMARiopsis. — Fronds pinnated. Veins simple or forked, fi-ee. — Gen. 

 Lomariopsis, Fee. Acrostichum, L. Stenochlaena, in part, J. Sm. 



95. A. (Lomariopsis) sorhifoUuni, Linn. ; caudex long thick 

 scandent often angled i)y the decurrent bases of the stipites 

 clothed with large lanceolato-subulate ciliated generally pale 



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