146 GLEICIIENIA DICHOTOMA. 



Native of the East Indies, Malay Islands, Nepal, Sylhet, 

 Tenesserim, Singapore; China; Ceylon, Malabar, Philippine 

 Islands, Assam, Pulo Penang, Mauritius, Java, Madagascar, 

 Fernando Po, Brazil, Bahia, Islands of Tobago, and Trinidad. 



The stipes, which is rounded and somewhat hirsute, bears 

 ultimate branches, with a pair of pinnae two inches and a half 

 wide, and from six to twelve inches long, and another pair 

 also at the base of the di-trichotomy, not of the frond. The 

 pinnae are lanceolate-acuminate and pinnatifid, the segments 

 linear-obtuse or emarginate, the lower external ones usually 

 the largest; apices rounded. 



Sori consisting of from ten to twelve capsules, punctiform, 

 and naked. 



Fronds glabrous, glaucous beneath. 



Veins branched. 



Brownish stalks, rising from fast-creeping, stout, wiry stems. 



Phizoma creeping. 



The variety known as Mertensia mucronata of Peinwardt, 

 has very broad pinna?, and a caudate apex: it is the Gleichenia 

 rigida of J. Smith. 



Gleichenia dichotoma attains a height of from five to six 

 feet. 



For a plant my thanks are due to Mr. Moore, of the 

 Glasnevin Gardens, Dublin; and for fronds to Mr. J. Smith, 

 Curator of the Poyal Gardens, Kew; Mr. Sim, of Foot's 

 Cray; and Mr. Veitch, Jun., of the Exotic Nursery, Chelsea. 



This species may be procured of Messrs. Veitch, Jun., of 

 Chelsea; Mr. P. Sim, of Foot's Cray; and Mr. E. G. Henderson, 

 of the Wellington Nursery. 



The illustration is from fronds forwarded by Mr. J. Smith, 

 of Kew. 



