268 ACROSTICHUM, § CHBYSODIUM. 



clothed with very long and very narrow scales twisted at the 

 extremity," stipites thicker than a writing-pen 10 inches and 

 more long, fronds simple very thick carnoso-coriaceous ; ste- 

 rile ones 2 feet and more long 6 inches wide glabrous broad- 

 lanceolate acuminate cuneate at the base margined entire, costa 

 channelled above elevated beneath, veins very numerous inter- 

 nal indistinct close-placed transverse at their base anastomos- 

 ing into a series of short oblique costal areoles, the restdicho- 

 tomously divided but here and there anastomosing into very 

 long narrow acute-angled areoles directed towards the margin; 

 fertile frond in my specimen 9 inches long by 2| broad acumi- 

 nate. — Kze. ill Linnaa, ix. /;. 26. Olfersia, Pr. Hymeno- 

 dium Kunzeanum, Fee,Acrost. p. 90. /. 58. H. pachyphyl- 

 lum, Moore. 



Hab. Near Pauipayaco, Peru, Poeppig, in Herh. nostr. — This is undoubtedly 

 the largest, or at least the longest, of all the simple-fronded Acrostichoid 

 Ferns, and appears to be very rare. 1 have heard of no other locality than that 

 above given. 



141. A. (Chrysodium) Blumeanum, Hook, (not of Fee) ; 

 caudex long-scandent squarrose with lanceolate reticulated 

 dirty-brown scales, stipites a span and more long thicker than 

 a goose-quill and as well as the rachis pale-brown deciduously 

 setoso-squamulose as is much of the frond beneath in a young 

 state, fronds 2-3 feet long ovate acuminate pinnated, pinnae 

 numerous ; sterile ones membranaceous subpetiolate, petiole 

 short articulated on the rachis alternate 6 inches long 1 inch 

 wide from a truncated slightly oblique base oblong coarsely 

 serrated below the acuminated point, veins oblong forming 

 oblong hexagonal areoles having a horizontally patent direc- 

 tion gradually smaller towards the margin ; fertile ]Ann?e6S 

 inches long scarcely \h line wide sessile opposite or very 

 nearly so linear acute, sori clothing the whole back of the 

 pinnae save the costa. — Cheilolepton, Fee,Acrost.p. 89. ^.51 

 [very accurate). Leptochilus lomarioides, Bl. Fit. Jav. p. 

 206. Neurocallis, Moore. Lomagramme pteroides, J. Sm. 

 in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. p. 402 (name only), and iv. p. 152 

 [the sori partially confined to the margin of the pinnce). 

 Hook. Gen. Fit. t. 97. Moore, Tnd. Fit. t. 30. Fee, Vittar. 

 p. 27. Brack. Fil. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 83. 



Hab. Java, Blume. Luzon, Cuming, n. 223 a)id 228. Samoa, Navigators' 

 Islands, abundant, but local, in damp shady places, running over rocks and up 

 high trees, Brackenridge, Rev. T. Powell, n. 26. — My specimens of this from 

 Cuming have the most perfect conformity with the figure and description of Fee's 



