1900 SUPPLEMENT—RECENT INTRODUCTIONS, &c. 409 
Gymnogramme—confinwed. 
soft texture; under-side coated with a white powder, some- 
times tinged with red. sori pale brown. Natal and the 
Mascarene Islands. SYN. Ceropteris argentea. The form aurea 
has yellow powder. 
G. calomelanos chrysophylla farinifera (farina-bearing). 
cau. short. sti, quadrangular, channelled, blackish, minutely 
white-dotted. fronds white beneath, mealy above. 1886. (1. H. 
1886, 604.) 
G. c. c. grandiceps (large-crested). A fine, crested variety. 
G. c. c, Laucheana grandiceps (Lauche’s, large-headed).* 
Jronds elongated, bipinnate, terminating in a broadly-tasselled, 
drooping apex, the under-surface clothed with palish yellow 
meal; segments blunt at the end. 1882. The most striking 
of all the Gold Ferns. 
Other sub-varieties of chrysophylla are: Alstonie, grandiceps, 
multiceps, Parsonsii; and of peruviana there are forms known as 
argyrophylla and Mayii. 
Fie. 430. 
G. chrysophylia (golden-leayed). A variety of G. calomelanos. 
G. cordata (heart-shaped).* sti. glossy, black, lin. to 2in. long, 
scaly. fronds somewhat ovate, 3in. to 6in. long, 1sin, to 2in. 
broad, bipinnatifid; pinnz oblong; lobes nearly round, deeply 
toothed, somewhat coriaceous, naked above, densely coated 
below with rusty-brown scales. sori at first linear, eventually 
confiuent and covering the greater part of the pinne. Cape 
Colony, Bourbon Island, &c., 1838. See Fig. 429. 
G. decurrens (running down). A synonym of G. elliptica. 
G. diplazioides (Diplazium-like). sti. 3in. to 4in. long, scaly 
below. fronds soft, lift. to 2ft. long, bipinnatifid; central 
pinne 3in. to 4in. long, Zin. to lin. broad, cut down about two- 
thirds of the way into blunt, entire lobes, the lower ones gra- 
dually reduced. sori oblong, often reaching from the midrib to 
the edge. Mexico and the West Indies. Syns. G. Linkiana, 
G. rupestris, Leptogramme diplazioides. 
Vol. V. 
Gymnogramme—continued. 
G. elegantissima (most elegant). 
of G. decomposita. 
G. elliptica (elliptic). rhiz. wide-creeping, woody. sti. naked, 
lft. or more in length. fronds soft, lft. to 14ft. long, 6in. to 
Yin. broad, cut down nearly to the rachis in the upper, and 
uite in the lower, part into four to six narrow-oblong or 
elliptic pinne on each side. sori narrow, oblique, reaching 
the midrib but not the edge. Himalayas, Queensland, &e. 
Greenhouse. Syns. G. decurrens, Selliguea elliptica. 
G. Féei (Fée’s). rhiz. wide-creeping, furnished with very bright 
brown scales. fronds dimorphous; barren ones 3in. to 4in. long, 
ljin. to 2in. broad, oblong-ovate, borne on stipes lin. to 3in. 
long; fertile ones a little longer and narrower, and with 
shorter stipes; both entire, acute, coriaceous, conspicuously 
veined and smooth on both sides. sori narrow-oblong, in 
manele rows between the main veins, not reaching either the 
midrib or the edge. Malaya. See Fig. 431. Syn. Selliguea Féei. 
See Fig. 450. A synonym 
Ve —— 
GYMNOGRAMME ELEGANTISSIMA. 
G. flavens (yellowish). A synonym of Nothochlena slavens. 
G. fraxinea (Ash-like) 
G. gracilis (slender).* sti. short, glossy, scaly, about 4in. long. 
JSronds very handsome, 2ft. to 4ft. long, 1ft. or more in width, 
soft, bipinnatifid ; central pinne 4in. to 8in. long, lin. to 1din. 
broad, cut down nearly to the midrib into slightly falcate 
lobes. sori nearer the edge than the midrib. Jamaica and 
Guadeloupe. See Fig. 432. Syn. Leptogramme gracil 
G. Hookeri (Hooker's). sti. 4in. to 6in. long, firm, covered (as 
well as the under-surface of the fronds) with rusty-brown 
down. fronds coriaceous, Yin, to 15in. long, 4in. to Sin. broad, 
bipinnate; leaflets lanceolate; pinnules narrow-oblong, entire 
or slightly toothed, }in. to sin. long, with inrolled edges. sori 
oblong, thick, at length covering the whole under-surface and 
covered by the down. Andes of Colombia. See Fig. 453. 
3G 
A synonym of G. javanica. 
