Victorian Plants. 



segments of pinnas very firm, almost orbicular or quadrate- 

 roundish, blunt-edged from the broad and close recurva- 

 tion of their margin ; spore- caselets two or three or seldom 

 more or one only, almost globular, pale-yellowish or 

 turning light-brownish. G. dicarpa. 



2139. Short ramification below each pair of pinnas also 

 beset with pinnules. 



In miniature somewhat of a palm-like aspect ; stems 

 scattered ; fronds of rather tender texture ; pinnas 

 crowded, lanceolar in outline, their segments broad- 

 linear, flat, all except the uppermost quite separated 

 down to the rhachis, entire or towards the summit 

 slightly denticulated, paler green or seldom grey 

 beneath ; spore -caselets nearly globular, often four or 

 five, occasionally three or six, hardly contracted towards 

 the base. G. flabellata. 



Short ramification below each pair of pinnas bare 

 except at the base. 



Stems scattered ; fronds of rather tender texture ; pinnas 

 lanceolar in outline, but generally truncate at the base, 

 their segments semilanceolar- or broad-linear, often flat, 

 greyish beneath, all except the uppermost separated 

 almost down to the rhachis, never denticulated ; the 

 solitary pair of pinnas at the base of the ramifications 

 diminutive ; spore-caselets nearly globular, but conspicu- 

 ously contracted towards the base, several or sometimes 

 many, seldom few. G. Hermann!. 



OSIKUNDA. 



2140. Trunk finally tall and enormously broad, always of 

 irregular form. 



Trunk at advanced age very ponderous, bearing many tufts 

 of fronds ; stalks rigid, of conspicuous length ; fronds 

 large, occasionally very long, always doubly pinnate, 

 of very firm texture ; segments of the pinnules mostly 

 elongate- or narrow-semilanceolar and towards the summit 

 denticulated ; spore-caselets occupying the under-side of 

 the lower segments either fully or only towards the -base, 

 closely crowded into generally somewhat elliptical and 

 often confluent masses, dark-brown, almost globular, on 

 very short stalklets. Figure 137. "The Square-Fern," 

 (Todea Africana.) O. barbara. 



