HORTUS VEITCHI1 



NEPHEOLEPIS EUFESCENS, Presl, var. TEIPINNATIFIDA, 



Baker. 



Syns. N. exaltata, Schott. 



Gard. Chron. 1887, vol. i. p. 476, tigs. 90, 91, pp. 477, 481 ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1887, 



p. 10, fig. p. 3. 



A native of the Fiji Islands, and one of the most beautiful of all forms 

 of the widely distributed type species. 



A stove fern with tufted sub-erect fronds, 2 to 3 ft. high, and pinnae 

 cut in segments of endless variety of length and form. 



NOTHOCHL/ENA MOLLIS, Kunze. 



Gard. Chron. 1861, p. 499 (advt.). 



This fine hardy greenhouse fern, indigenous to the South of Chili, is of 

 tufted habit, with long narrow lanceolate fronds, bipinnate with crowded 

 deeply lobed pinnules. 



OSMUNDA JAVANICA, Blume. 



Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. xvi. p. 761 (Report of Show) ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1884, p. 74 ; 



Fl. and Pom. 1882, p. 122. 



A handsome evergreen fern from Java, with erect fronds 1 to 2 ft. high, 

 with crimson stipes and lance-shaped pinnae 4 to 6 in. long, of leathery 

 texture, and of a grass-green colouring. 



OSMUNDA EEGALIS, L., var. COEYMBIFEEA, Hort. 



Syns. 0. japonica, Thunb., var. corymbifera, Mast. 



Gard. Chron. 1883, vol. xix. p. 466; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1883, p. 16, tig. p. 8; 

 Fl. and Pom. 1882, p. 122 ; id. 1883, p. 104, fig. 



A very distinct dwarf -growing variety of the Eoyal Fern, with the 

 tips of the fronds and pinnae peculiarly crested. 



The fronds crowded, and the stipes, about 4 in. in height, erect, of a 

 distinct rosy pink. 



It was introduced from Japan through Charles Maries, has proved 

 exceedingly ornamental for pot culture, and interesting as one of those 

 forms with multifid fronds which are reproduced in the same character 

 when raised from spores. 



PELL^IA BELLA, Baker. 



Syns. Platyloma bellum, Moore. 

 Moore in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 213; Fl. and Pom. 1873, p. 157, fig. 



A pretty greenhouse fern from California, allied to Pellea brachyptera, 

 with smaller pinnae and of more slender growth. 



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