ACROSTJCHUM,
§
ELAPHOGLOSSUM.
235
fertile fronds 5 - 8 - 1 0 inches long | - | o f an inch wide linearoblong.—Hook, and Grev. t. 164. Mart. Crypt. Bras. p. 8 3 .
t. 21 ( small specimens).
Fee, Acrost. p. b ].
Elaphoglossum,
Moore.
Olfersia, Pr.
1
Hab. Brazil, Langsdorff,
Martins,
Sellow, Gardner, n. 94 and 5 9 2 9 . — F e e
observes, " cette grande et belle espeee est fort distincte; elle est abondamment
couverte des squames blanchdtres.-"
whereas the scales o f our specimens are
aureo-ferruginous, and in liis own specific character he says, " squamis ferrugineis." This colour is one of the distinguishing marks between this species and
A. heterolepis, and, as I suspect is the case in that species, the scales are in age
very deciduous.
8 1 . A . (Elaphoglossum) laminarioides, B o r y ; "sterile fronds
vittate (elongato-linear) acuminate, acumen very long and
narrow flexuose partially clothed (subtectis) with lacerated
acuminate rufo-ferruginous scales on both sides especially at
the costa, stipites ferruginous; fertile
fronds linear acute,
the m a r g i n " (probably in drying?) "revolute, beneath clothed
with appressed irregularly rounded scales ciliated at the
margin, caudex creeping." Fee.—Bory,
in Fee, Acrost. p. 57Elaphoglossum, Moore.
Hab. French Guiana, Leprieur.—Fee's
figure
represents an Acrostichum,
of
which the sterile plant has a stipes 8 - 9 inches long, fronds li—2 feet long 1 - 1 £
inch wide obtusely or long and finely acuminated ; fertile
with a stipes only 3
inches long, with a frond 7 inches long by J an inch wide. The species exhibits
no very striking characters.
82. A . (Elaphoglossum) cuspidatum,
W i l l d . ; " sterile
fronds linear-lanceolate elongate terminating abruptly in a
narrow acumen sometimes gradually acuminated attenuated
at the base squamose beneath, scales fulvous lanceolate more
copious on the rufescent costa, above the scales are appressed
albescent translucent ciliated channelled, the margins repand,
veins parallel standing out nearly at a right a n g l e ; fertile
fronds linear densely squamose, scales rounded ciliated, sti­
pites in both elongated sulcate squamose, caudex repent
thick, the scales rufous lanceolate subentire ending in a long
cuspidate p o i n t . " Fee.— Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 106. Kze. in
Linncea, ix. p. 29. Fee, Acrost. p. 5 7 . t. 14. / . 2. E l a p h o ­
glossum, Moore.
Olfersia, Pr.
H a b . Caraccas (Willdenoiv).
Peru, Pceppig.
Tarapota, Spruce, n. 4 6 3 8 . V e ­
nezuela, Fendler, u. 2 7 1 . Ocana, Schlim, n. 6 2 1 . Ecuador, Bafios, Spruce, n.
5 2 3 2 . (Fee quotes Brazil, Gardner, n. 5 9 2 9 , but that is clearly A.
Langsdorffii.)
—This is probably, like too many of the Elaphoglossum group, a very variable
plant. F e e ' s figure represents a narrow form of it with unusually cuspidate
points of the sterile fronds, and their under side as quite shaggy with palea-