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GYMNOGRAMMA TOTTA. Schleciitendal. 

 Moore, (MS.) 



PLATE XII. 



Gymnogramme totta, 

 Gymnogramma Loweii, 

 Leptogramma Loweii, 



Fee. 



Hooker and Gkeville. 



HooKEE,. Smitii. 



Gymnogramma — jS^aked writing. 



Totta — Prom Hottentot. 



Gymnogramma totta is a very rare Fern in cultivation in 

 England. It is a handsome species. 



The fronds, which are hairy, are lanceolate in form, and 

 from eighteen inches to two feet in length; the colour is palish 

 green; pinnate, pinnse sessile, oblong bluntish, pinnatifid, the 

 upper ones being adnate; lobes blunt, veins forked or pinnate, 

 the lower pair occasionally anastomosing. Rhizoma creeping 

 and scaly. Stipes scaly, terminal, and adherent. 



The sori linear, simple, and sometimes very profuse. 



In cultivation it requires a warm greenhouse. 



It is a native of Madeira, Cape of Good Hope, and the 

 East Indies. 



Formerly, G. totta and G. Loioeii were considered distinct 

 from each other; the former being the Indian form of it, and 

 the plant described by Schlechtendal; and the latter, which 

 was named after the Rev. Mr. Lowe, (a Botanist,) the Madeira 

 form. They are now, however, considered to be one and 

 the same plant. 



