TAB. XXVI. 
Acrostichusi 
(GrMNOPTERIS) 
IjINNVEANUM, 
Hook. 
rnnrlice repente squamoso subtus fibroso, stipitibus sparsis ap- 
° vimatis 2-6-uncialibus inferne squamis mgris subulatis 
m?ce paleaceis, fron dibus subdimorphis; sterilibus 4-8 uncias 
Inn o'is semiunciam latis submembranaceis elongato-lanceo- 
in t is subopacis superne ssepe longe acummatis apice radican- 
tibus et prollferis margine integemmis, venis .indistmcte 
pinnatis venulis primariis transversis secundarnsquc vane 
anastomosantibus, areolis majusculis subhexagonis rarissimo 
appendiculatis, stipitibus 2-3 uncias longis; fertilibus duplo 
ano'ustioribus rigidioribus 4-uncialibus lineari-lanceolatis. 
Leptocbilus Linnseanus, Fee, Acrostich. p. 87. tab. 47./. 2. 
excluding probably all the synonyms ; certainly all references 
to figures. 
Dendroglossa Linmeana, Fee , Gen. Fil. p. 81. 
TTa t;. Malay Islands, Java, u Zollinger, n. 1441.” Borneo, 
Motley, n. 427. 
There can, I think, be no doubt of this pretty Fern being 
the Leptochilus Linncenus of Fee, 1. c. ; but he quotes Linnaeus’ 
Acrostichum lanceolatum, Amoen. Acad. 1. p. 268 ; though 
it is quite clear that Linnaeus 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 Linmean plant was the Polypodium acrostichoides of 
Forst. Prodr. now generally referred to Niphobolus. 
Fee afterwards in his Genera Filicum refers Linnaeus’ Acros- 
tichum lanceolatum to Dendroglossa ; while Moore places it 
in his Gymnopteris, among the Pleurogrammecn. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a sterile frond to show the venation, 
(where however, the primary pinnated veins are scarcely suffi- 
ciently distinctly represented). /. 2. Portion of a fertile 
ioik seen 10m beneath, one side with the capsules removed. 
J. o., Lapsule: magnified. 
Cent. 2. -t. 2G. 
