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squamosis; frondibus anguste-linearis, coriaceis, apice et basi 
longe acuminatis, margine glabris, revolutis, subtus densissime 
squamosis; squamis ovatis-lanceolatis, reticulatis, ciliatis; 
stipes teretes, squamosi, prope basim articulati. 
Climbing on trees; rhizome slender, less than I cm. 
in diameter, covered with dark-brown, glossy, stiff, lan¬ 
ceolate scales; stipes clustered, terete, arising from lateral 
buds, 2 to 3 cm. long, and also covered with short, dark 
scales, when old of a bright reddish straw-color, showing 
a well marked joint less than I cm. from the rhizome; fronds 
coriaceous, 30-40 cm. long, 2 to 5 mm. wide, broadest above 
the middle and tapering to each end, of a light green color 
when young, becoming tawny and mottled with black on the 
upper surface when old, densely covered beneath with ovate- 
lanceolate, ciliate and reticulate scales, naked above except 
along the midvein; scales of the lower surface of the midvein 
mottled with black; margins nearly naked and strongly 
revolute, even when boiled; veins pinnate, about 1 mm. 
apart, sometimes bifurcate near the midvein. Yungas (342), 
sterile specimens only; collected also by R. Pearce, June, 
1865, at Quichara, Herb. Kew, marked “epiphytal ferns.” 
Another specimen, collected by Pearce at the same time and 
place, has fronds nearly twice as long and broad, and the 
scales are round and more deeply laciniate—perhaps a different 
species. A remarkable species of the section Elaphoglossum 
not approaching any member of the group that we have seen; 
its nearest alliance is with A. lepidotum , Willd., and probably 
with var. vittatum , Sodiro, Recens. Crypt. Vase. Quitenses, 
p. 81. Named in honor of Professor Daniel Cady Eaton, of 
Yale University, who first declared it to be a new species. 
A. cuspidatum , Willd., Unduavi (293); Yungas (294). 
A. caudatum , Hook., Mapiri (442). 
A. osmundaceum , Hook, Yungas (443). 
Aneimia Breuteliana , Presl., Yungas (120). 
A . tomentosa , Sw., Yungas (118, 119). 
A. Phyllitidis , Sw., Mapiri (155). 
Lygodium venustum , Sw., Guanai (144); the form, L. palmati- 
lobum , Mart. Flor. Bras., t. 14, No. 6, Guanai (142) and 
another, L. hirsutum , Willd., Yungas (143). 
