256 ACROSTICHUM, § SOROMANES. 



fronds firm carnoso-coriaceous subdiaphanous ; fertile ones 

 3-6-8 inches long f-2 inches wide oblongo-lanceolate ob- 

 tuse moderately attenuated at the base above partially squa- 

 niulose minutely punctulato-glandulose beneath, veins sub- 

 horizontal singularly prominent beneath, conniventat a sharp 

 angle a little within the margin so as to form a zigzag sub- 

 marginal vein often prolonged by a single veinlet from their 

 union to the very margin ; fertile fronds smaller and nar- 

 rower. — Hooli. and Grev. Ic. Fit. t. 105. Aconiopteris, Pr. 

 Tent. Pterid. p. 236. t. 10. /. 17- Fee, Acrost. p. 79. 01- 

 fersia, Moore. 



Hah. St. Helena, on trunks of trees, summit of Diana's Peak, Walker, Dallas, 

 J. D. Hooker, Nuttall, etc. — This very distinct species of Acrostichum was sup- 

 posed to have been detected in tlie Madras Peninsula, but it is now ascertained 

 that specimens received from that country were gathered at St. Helena. 



121. A. (Olfersia) Richardi, Bory ; "sterile fronds linear 

 acute at each extremity sometimes rather obtuse coriaceous 

 beneath clothed with small caducous scales ; fertile fronds 

 linear very narrow stipitate longer and scaly in both canali- 

 culate, caudex creeping as thick as a goose-quill." — Aconio- 

 pteris, Fee, Acrost. p. 80. 



Hab. Bourbon, Bori/. — " Cet*^^e espcce manque des caracteres tranches, mais la 

 soudure des nervilles pres de la marge la faisant entrer dans le sous-genre Aconio' 

 pteris, il sera facile de la reconnaitre." Fee. 



§ 8. SoROMANES. — Fronds ample, dimorphous, pinnated, pinnatifid at the apex ; 

 feriile ones more compound. Veins slender, forked, and connivent at an acute 

 angle, so as to form oblique, elongated areoles, destitute of free veinlets. — Gen. 

 Soromanes, Fee. {Venation of Cyclodium among Aspidiea;, and, like that, not 

 unfrequenily free.) 



122. A. (Soromanes) Ccenopteris, Kze. Herb. ; caudex long 

 stout partially densely radicant with coarse wiry fibres very 

 paleaceous with large subulate soft ferruginous denticulated 

 scales, stipites 1-1 -i foot long paleaceous below, fronds di- 

 morphous subcoriaceous ; sterile owq^ I2-2 feet and more 

 long ovato-lanceolate pinnate pinnatifid at the apex 5-7 

 inches long ovato-lanceolate or lanceolate acuminate obtusely 

 and obliquely subcuneate at the base, lower ones subpetiolate 

 often serrated towards the apex ; fertile fronds narrovv-er bi- 

 rarely tripinnate, pinnules h an inch long oblong sessile very 

 obtuse, rachises winged. — Polybotrya serrata, Borij, in Herb. 

 Galeotti {Fee). Soromanes serratifolium, Fee, Acrost. p. 82, 

 i-'cry good (S. dentatum on the plate, not Acrost. serratifol., 

 Mert. in Klfs. En.). S. integrifolium. Fee, I. c. t. 42, fertile 



