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and quite lin. in length,— Hooker., Species Filicum, v., p. 216. Nicholson, 

 Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 19. 



A. heterolepis— het-er-ol'-ep-is (having different scales), Baker. 



A stove, Brazilian species of purely botanical interest, with small, oblong- 

 lanceolate (elliptically spear-shaped) fronds, the under-side of which is densely 

 clothed with spreading scales of a pale brown colour. — Hooker, Synopsis 

 Filicum, p. 521. 



A. (Elaphoglossum) heteromorphum— El-aph-og-lds' -sum : het-er- 

 om-or'-phum (various -formed), Klotzsch. 

 This dwarf-growing, stove species, native of Columbia and Ecuador, 

 although of little decorative value, is particularly interesting through its 

 barren fronds — only 2in. long by nearly lin. broad, and borne on short, slender 

 stems — being simple (without distinct ramifications), rounded at the base, 

 and having scattered over both surfaces linear (much longer than wide) 

 scales, of a peculiar chestnut colour. Its fertile fronds, of smaller dimensions, 

 are, like the barren ones, disposed on a slender, wide-creeping or long-trailing 

 rhizome (prostrate stem). — Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 224. Nicholson, 

 Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 19. 



A. (Chrysodium) Meudelotii— Chry-so'-di-uru • Heu-de-lot'-i-i (Heu- 

 delot's), Hooker. 



A stove species from Senegambia and Sierra Leone, whose barren fronds, 

 lft. to ljft. long by 6in. to lOin. broad, are furnished with numerous erecto- 

 patent (upright -spreading) pinnas (leaflets) on each side, 3in. to 6in. long, 

 and narrowed to both ends. These fronds, of a coriaceous or leathery texture, 

 are borne on firm, erect, naked stipes (stalks), Gin. to 9in. long, and proceed 

 from a wide-creeping or long-trailing rhizome (prostrate stem) of a woody 

 nature. — Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 264. 



A. hybridum— hyb'-rid-um (hybrid), Bory. 



This stove species, native of the Mascarene Islands, the Cameroon 

 Mountains, Fernando Po, &c, appears to be identical with the Brazilian plant 

 known as A. Linbergii (Lin-berg'-i-i), of Mettenius. Its barren fronds, 



