THE ILLUSTRATION IIORTICOLE. 



PL. CCXXVI. 



TODEA WILKESIANA, 



HKACKl-MMlMiK. 



NAT. OED. FILICES. 



ETYMOLOGY: After a distinguished german mycologist, named Tode, author of Fungi MeeMenhurqenses 

 GENERIC CHARACTER: omnia Osmundacearum (i.e. sporangia hypophylla, v. frondibus contract panicokU 



tenuissime membranacea, annulo dorsali lato incompleto, vertice dehiscentia, sporae oblongae v. subglobosne indngj ■ i 

 bipinnatae, stomatibus praeditae, vernatione circinnatae, fertiles saepissime contractae); charact. autem Todearum n 

 venulis frondis imposita.— Filices Novae-Hollandiae , Novae-Zelandiae et Novae-Caledoniae, frondibus bipim.ati< 



Todea, Willdenow, in Act. Acad. Erfurt, 1802, p. 11. - Schkuhr, Crypt, t. 147. - Kaolf, Emm. t. 1. p. 5 

 Grev. Ic. 1. 101. — A. Rich, Fl. Nov.-Zeel., t. 16. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER : caudex erectus, stipitibus laevibus semi-teretibus antice sulcatis, frondes ,,,],, 

 bipinnatae, pinnis sessilibus oblongo-lanceolatis inferioribus deflexis, rachibus pilosis alatis, pinnulia oblou-ris i.btusis 

 oblique cuneatis pellucido-punctatis. — Nova-Caledonia, ins. Fidji. 



Todea Wilkesiana, Brackenridge. United Stales crp/ariny e,> j.tditioit . XX, 309, t. 43. 

 — Fraseri p Hooker et Baker, Syn. fil. p. 427. 



This charming Fern is a native of New Caledonia, whence for the elegance and grace of its decompound 

 Mr. Linden's collectors have lately sent some fine living membranous translucent fronds, resembling fa 



examples. It is also found in New Zealand, the Fiji Isles, 

 and probably in other parts of the Southern Archipelago. 



It assumes the form of a miniature tree, having an erect, 

 black stem, swollen at the base, and clothed with adven- 

 titious roots. Scars of the fallen fronds prominent. In height 

 this species barely exceeds a yard, judging from the speci- 

 mens seen on our last trip to Ghent ; but it is remarkable 



characters those of s 

 delight in a humid t 

 To have this fern i 

 cold or temperate Ik 

 such as suits Leptopte 

 being confined : 



Hymcnophylhoa and other ferns that 

 tmosphere. 



l all its beauty it should be kept in a 

 use, with a close, moist atmosphere. 

 I flourish without 





glass < 



Ed. Akdhe. 



M" J. LINDEN'S NEW WINTER GARDEN. 



A fine large iron and glass structure has recently been 

 added to Mr. Linden's establishment, to shelter the spe- 

 cimen Palms, Ferns, Cycads, etc. It is a magnificent con- 

 servatory, as may be imagined from the accompanying 

 plate , measuring nearly 100 feet in length , by 52 feet in 

 breadth and 30 feet in height. 



In this spacious building, Mr. Linden will be able to 

 winter his large specimens of tree-ferns , among which he 

 has Balantium antarcticum with trunks 20 feet high and 

 3 yards in girth ! Probably the largest hitherto introduced 

 into Europe. 



Among some of the handsomer of the plants occupying 

 this house, we observed examples of Cyathea medullaris 

 with trunks exceeding 12 feet in height, surmounted with a 

 crown of magnificent fronds, Cyathea dealbata, excelsa, etc., 

 Alsophila contaminans. A. australis, Dicksonia squarrosa, 



tenuis, awea, etc.. Chamarmps st<mv 

 elegans, Thrinaco argentea and rteyau 

 revoluta and circinolis, E»o<>pL«lnrtns * 

 lanuginosa, Lchmamii , n'lhsa, Vroomi 

 species, Strelitzia Ernesti-Ai<y»sti , : 



much about the constantly changing or 



with quoting the names of a few renin 

 especially as we shall frequently hav 



