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Rootstock creeping, nearly as thick as a goosequill, and closely 

 imbricated with brown paleaceous scales. Stipe smooth, semiterete, 

 with a single shallow groove in front, and a few scattered blunt paleae 

 near the base, that of the fertile frond about twice the length of the 

 sterile one. Both kinds of fronds are about equal in size : they 

 average from 2 to 8 inches in length, and from 5 to 12 lines in 

 breadth ; in outline they are oblong-lanceolate, with an attenuated base, 

 and a somewhat hardened curved margin. Veins sunk, forked, and 

 parallel. 



10. Elaphoglossum Feejeense, Sp. Nov. 



E. rhizomate brevi crasso repente paleaceo; stipitibus semiteretibus basi 

 paleaceis, fertilibus longioribus ; frondibus coriaceis submarginatis 

 utrinque lepidotis, sterili oblongo-lanceolata obtusa basi anguste atte- 

 nuata, fertili parva oblonga obtusa basileviter attenuata; venis immer- 

 sis parallelis furcatis. 



Hab. Feejee Islands : on trees ; vicinity of Sandal-wood Bay. 



Rootstoch thick, short, and creeping, densely imbricated with long, 

 slender, reticulated, serrate, light-brown paleae. Fronds crowded: 

 stipe of the sterile 3 to 5 inches long, that of the fertile more slender, 

 from 10 to 12 inches, smooth, half round, slightly margined upwards, 

 and paleaceous at the base: the sterile frond about a span long and 

 one inch broad, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, much attenuated at the base, 

 with a partially thickened margin ; both surfaces dotted with nume- 

 rous small, reddish, peltate scales, which extend sometimes to the costa 

 and stipe : fertile fronds smaller, oblong, obtuse, 3 inches long, by 10 

 lines broad, with a very slightly attenuated base. 



This differs from the preceding species in the obtuse fronds, and in 

 the presence of numerous small peltate scales on both surfaces. 



11. Elaphoglossum obtusifolium. 



E. rhizomate crasso brevi repente paleaceo; stipitibus semiteretibus basi 

 paleaceis; frondibus coriaceis glabris submarginatis obscure lepidotis 

 obovato-oblongis obtusis basi attenuatis, fertili angustiori et stipite Ion- 

 gion; venis immersis parallelis et furcatis. 



