CALLIPTEEIS CAMPTEEIA. 



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species, the fronds attaining from 3 to 4 feet long ; they are 

 twice-pinnated, and the pinnae or leaflets 

 are lance-shaped, with a deeply-cut mar- 

 gin. The frond-stalks are thorny, 

 placed upon a thick creeping rootstock. 

 It is increased by division, or the 

 young plants produced on the fronds, 

 and requires plenty of pot room, and 

 to be frequently syringed overhead. 



C. MALABAEICA (Malabar), Fig. 8. 

 Native of various parts of the East 

 Indies. This is, amongst Fern-cultiva- 

 tors, the well-known Diplazium Seram- 

 purense. It may be readily distinguished 

 from the preceding species by the fronds 

 being pubescent, or covered with a 

 woolly substance, and by the stalks of 

 the fronds being deeply channelled. It 

 is a large free-growing Fern, easily in- 

 creased by spores coming up sponta- 

 neously on the soil of other plants, as 

 well as its own, in a moist hot stove. 

 This used to be known formerly as 

 Diplazium esculentum. 



CAMPTEEIA'. 



CAMPTEEIA BIAUEITA (Twice-eared), 

 Fig. 9. A West-Indian genus and spe- 

 cies, formed by Mr. J. Smith from Pteris, 

 because of its peculiar form of spore- 

 vessels and its solitary looped veins. 

 The fronds are of a long triangular 

 form, often reaching 4 feet long. They 

 are pinnate and the -pinnae are without 



Fig. 8. Callipteris malaba- 

 rica, (Small part of frond 

 near the top natural size.) 



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