Prats 16. 
ACROSTICHUM (Evacrosricuum) 
Meyerianum, Hook. 
Meyer’s Acrostichum. 
Acrosticaum (Euacrostichum) Meyerianwm ; caudex very long, stout, partially 
scaly, scandent on trees, here and there rooting parasitically ; stipites dis- 
tant, a foot and more long, stout, firm and glossy ; fronds dimorphous, very 
large, two to three feet long, sterile ones pinnated ; pinne from a span to 
a foot long, petiolate, firm, pergamentaceous, glossy, oblong-lanceolate, acu- 
minate, sharply cartilagineo-serrate, the base obliquely cuneated, penni- 
veined ; veins slender, very copious and compact, simple or forked near the 
base, uniting at their apices with the cartilaginous margin ; petioles two to 
three lines long, not articulated upon the rachis, bearing a gland above; 
fertile fronds as large as the sterile, bipinnate, with a gland at the axil of 
the primary pinne; pinnules very numerous, two to three inches long, 
narrow-linear, sessile or nearly so, soriferous beneath, except at the narrow, 
but scarcely involucriform margin. 
Lomaria Meyeriana. Kze. in Linnea, v. 10. p. 509. 
STENOCHLHNA Meyeriana. Presi, Epimel. Bot. p. 166. J. Sm. Cat. Cult. 
Ferns, p. 42. 
Lomariozporrys Meyeriana. Fée, Gen. Fil. p. 45. 
Lomaria secunda. Wall. Cat. n. 34. p. 2; and Cat. p. 61 (Lomaria longifolia, 
Wail.) 
Lomaria tenuifolia. “ Desv.” Bojer, Hort. Maurit. p. 407 (name only); an 
Stenochlzena tenuifolia, Moore ? 
Lomania grandis. Bojer, Hort. Maurit. p. 407 (name only). 
Has. South Africa; trunks of trees: between Omtendo and Omsamculo, 
climbing over the trees, Drége in Herb. Nostr. Natal, Guienzius, Plant, 
Herb. Natal. n. 91. Mauritius, Wallich in Herb. Nostr. East coast of 
tropical Africa, Isle of Galega, where it climbs to the top of the loftiest 
Cocoa-nut trees, Bojer in Herb. Nostr. (Lomaria grandis, Boj.), and Mada- 
gascar; Nissolée, Brown.—Cultivated at Kew, in the warm stove. 
Stenochlena was first constituted a genus by Mr. J. Smith 
“on account of its peculiar habit ;” meaning thereby, I presume, 
its scandent habit; and seven species are included in it, with 
not much uniformity of habit or character, of which, however, 
S. scandens appears to be the type, and with its general aspect 
our plant sufficiently accords : but then the author acknowledges 
that, setting habit aside, it becomes difficult to detect a good 
technical character to distinguish it from Elaphoglossum, Schott, 
and Polybotrya, Humb. Presl, finding the pinne of this species 
APRIL lst, 1861. 
