DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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Acr. lineare Fee, and for the present this species is included 
here, pending further information. Baker (Syn. Fil .), under 
A. lineare Fee, mentions a similar plant from Bourbon, which 
differs only by its more distinct raised veins, and adds: “This 
is very likely a narrow fronded variety of A. Aubertii , with 
which it agrees in clothing and texture.” 
E. lineare (Fee). Moore, Index , 11 (1857); C. Chr. Ind. 310. 
Acrostichum lineare. Fee, Acrost. 47, t. 15 (1845); Hk. and Bkr, 
Syn. Fil. 406. 
Rhodesia. — Mt Pene (Swynnerton, 6014). 
172. ELAPHOGLOSSUM SPATHULATUM (Bory) Moore. 
Plate 150. Fig. 1. Nat. size. 
Crown tufted, paleaceous. Barren fronds obovate cuneate, 
rounded at the apex, sub-coriaceous, entire, one to two inches 
long, quarter to half inch broad, and tapering gradually to 
the slender but firm one to two inch stipe, which is set with 
soft, spreading, almost hair-like, brown scales, as also is the 
frond on both surfaces, especially round the margin. Fertile 
frond different, almost circular, with a crenate margin, half 
inch long and broad ; the under surface filled with sori except 
at the margin, the upper surface hairy like the two-inch stipe. 
The two halves of the fertile frond fold more or less together 
over the sori, sometimes quite close. Veins indistinct. 
E. spathulatum (Bory). Moore, Index , 14 (1857); C. Chr. Ind. 316. 
Acrostichum spathulatum Bory. Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 408; Kuhn, 
Fil. Apr. 47; Sim, Ferns of S. Apr., 1st ed., 224. 
A. piloselloides. Presl. 
Tropical America, Ceylon, South Africa, and Mascarenes. 
Natal. — On moist rocks open to the south, from Seven Mile Bush 
through Nottingham to Karkloof, 4000 to 5000 feet (Buchanan); 
Lyndoch (McKen); Ingoma, Zululand (Gerrard); Bushman’s River 
in Giant Castle Game Reserve, 7000 ft (T. R. Sim); Bamboo Mtn, 
Polela (Miss Doidge). 
Genus 43. Acrostichum Linne. 
Sori spread all over the under surface of the frond, not in 
dots nor lines, not confined to the veins, and without indusia. 
Fronds (in our species) pinnate. Veins anastomosing freely. 
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