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Portion of a young Frond— upper side. 



GYMNOGRAMMA OCHRACEA. Presl. Moore. 



PLATE TV, 



Gymnogramma Massoni, 

 Gymnogramme ochracea, 

 Ceropteris Massoni, 



Gymnogrnmma — Naked writing. 



Of sojie atjtiioes. 



KUNZE. 



Link. Fee. 

 Ochracea — Yello w . 



Where it is requisite to delineate several Ferns in the 

 same tribe, all of which chance to be exceedingly beautiful, it 

 is somewhat difficult to describe each species in suitable lan- 

 guage. Larger in size, more graceful in form, yet less brilliant 

 in the colour of the farinose powder than Gymnogram^na cliry- 

 sophylla, this Fern cannot nevertheless be otherwise than greatly 

 admired. It is a very ornamental, compact, evergreen stove 

 species; a native of Peru. 



Both G. ochracea and G. chrysopJiylla are more numerously 

 supplied with fronds than either G. calomelanos or G. tartarea. 



The fronds are usually not much more than a foot in length; 

 however two specimens which are in my possession have them 

 two feet long. 



The colour of the upper surface of the frond is bright 

 shining green, beneath it is covered with an ochre yellow 

 powder. The fronds are terminal^ rising from a tufted rhizoma; 

 they are bipinnate, with lanceolate-acuminate pinnce, and having 

 oblong-linear narrow dentate pinnules. In a frond two feet 

 in length, the lower fourteen inches are naked; the base being 



