PLATE 1605. 
DICKSONIA SCANDENS, Baker. 
Fruices, Suborder Potypopiace#, Tribe DIcKsonIeg. 
Dicksonia scandens, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1877, p. 162; rhizomate 
late repente, stipitibus remotis nndis elongatis, frondibus amplis del- 
toideis tripinnatis subcoriaceis glabris viridibus rachibus furfuraceis, 
obtusis contiguis ascendentibus, venis pinnatis venulis 
siaenclesrisbuk simplicibus, indusii valva exteriore majore recurvata, 
Has. Andes of Quito, Sodiro. 
Stipes 9-10-pollicaris. uals majores pedales et ultra, 2-24 poll. 
lates. Pinnule 4 lin. lat 
This is one of the numerous new —. which have been discovered 
by Father Sodiro, who, during the last twenty years, has worked 
diligently and successfully at the botany “of Ecuador. Its indusium is 
eed and the long ar acne e to = scandent rhizome is a 
ew feature in this genus.—J, G. Bak 
Fig. 1, An entire pinna, life size. 2. A pinnule. 3. Margin of fertile pinnule, 
aa two sori. Both enlarged, 
