TAB. XXVI. 
AcROSTICHUM (GY]\mOPTERIs) LinNJ3ANUM, Hook. 
Cauclice repente squamoso subtus fibroso, stipitlbiis sparsis ap~ 
proximatis 2-6-uncialibus inferne squamis nigris subulatis 
parce paleaceis, frondibus siibdimorphis; sterilibus 4:-^ uncias 
lon<xis semiunciam latis submembranaceis elong-ato-lanceo- 
latis subopacis superne siepe longe acuminatis apice radican- 
tibus et proliferls margine integerrimis, venis indistincte 
pinnatisj venulis primariis transversis seciindariisque varie 
anastomosaritibiiSj areolis majusciilis siibhexagonis rarissime 
appendiculatis, stipitibus 2-3 uncias longis ; fertilibus duplo 
angiistioribus rigidioribus 4-uncialibiis lineari-lanceolatis. 
Leptocbilus Linnjcanus, Fee, Acrostich. p. 87. tab, 47. jf. 2. 
excluding probably all the synonyms ; certainly all references 
to figures, 
Dendroglossa Linnasana, Fee, Gen. Fil, p. 81. 
IIab. Malay Islands, Java^ Zollinger, n, 1441.” Borneo, 
Motley, n, 427. 
There can, I tliinlc, be no doubt of this pretty Fern being 
the Leptocliilus Linncenus of Fee, 1. c. ; but he quotes Linnaeus’ 
Acrostichum lanceolatuw , Amoen. Acad. 1. p. 268 ; though 
it is quite clear that Linnasus had quite another Fern in 
view, since he says of it, in Sp. Plant p. 1523, fructificationes 
sunt puncta confertissima, versus apicem frondis,” and he refers 
to Hort. Malab, 12. t. 27. But Swartz, long ago, showed 
that the Linna 0 an plant was the Polypodium acrostichoides of 
Forst. Prodr. now generally referred to Niphobolus, 
Fee afterwards in his Genera Filicum refers Linnaeus’ Acros- 
Helium lanceolatum to Dendroglossa ; while Moore places it 
in his Gymnopteris, among the PleurogrammecE, 
Fig, 1. Portion of a sterile frond to show the venation, 
(where however, the primary pinnated veins are scarcely suffi- 
ciently distinctly represented), f, 2. Portion of a fertile 
frond seen from beneath, one side with the capsules removed. 
f, 3., Capsule: magnified. 
Cent. 2 . t. 2 ( 5 . 
