

7. 1 > PLATYLOMA FLEXUOSA. 



being in pairs, about a quarter of an inch apart, and each 

 pair three inches apart; somewhat twining in habit, with 

 alternate zig-zag pubescent branches. The pinnules, which are 

 small, are ovate in form, glabrous, membranous, semi-trans- 

 parent, deciduous, cordate at the base, the margin being 

 cartilaginous. 



Rachis and stipes green when young, eventually becoming 

 brown, lateral, adherent to a creeping rhizoma. 



Length of frond from four to six feet; colour delicate pale 

 green. 



Sori linear, continuous, at first black, then changing to 

 reddish brown, not continued round the apex or base. Indu- 

 sium very narrow. 



My thanks are due to Mr. Norman, of Hull, and to Mr. 

 Stratton, of the Cambridge Botanic Gardens, for plants of this 

 Fern, and to Mr. Norman, and to Mr. Henderson, of Went- 

 worth, for fronds. 



It is in the Fern Catalogues of Messrs. Veitch, Jun., of 

 Chelsea; Booth, of Hamburg; Rollisson, of Tooting; Parker, 

 of Holloway; A. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place; Sim, of 

 Foot's Cray; Stansfield, of Todmorden; and Kennedy, of Covent 

 Garden. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



