Pinna of mature Frond — under side. 



DOODIA BLECHNOIDES. 

 A. Cunningham. Metten. J. Smith. Moore and 



HOULSTON. 



PLATE XXXII. 



Doodia maxima, J. Smith. 



Doodya hlechnoides, Kunze. 



Woodwardia hlechnoides^ !Fee. 



Doodia — JNamed after Mr. Doody, a botanist. Blechnoides — Bleclinum-like. 



A Blechnum-looking Doodia, not common in cultivation in 

 this country. 



It was raised from spores in the E-oyal Gardens, Kew, in 

 1835. 



An evergreen greenhouse species. 



Native of New Holland. 



The fronds, which are rigid, are broadly-lanceolate and pin- 

 natifid; segments lanceolate, approximate, and repand, with a 

 spinulose-serrate margin. 



Stipes completely buried under black scales. 



Fronds terminal, and adherent to an erect fasciculate rhizoma. 



Sori uniserial. 



Length of frond from twelve to eighteen inches; colour a 

 dull heavy green. 



