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TRICHOMANES ANGUSTATUM. 

 Carmichael. Hooker and Greville. {Not of J. Smith.) 



PLATE LXVII/ 



Trichomanes fulvum, Klotzsch. 



" tenerum, Sphengbl. 



Trichomanes — From the Greek, soft hair. Angustatum — Narrow. 



A VERY slender, delicate, creeping stove species. 



Native of Tristran d' Acunha, Brazil, Esmeraldas, El Ecuador, 

 Picliincha, Peru, and Gonga Sakoo. 



Caudex creeping, slender, and matted. Fronds pinnate, 

 lanceolate in form, very flaccid, and graceful; the pinnse 

 bipinnatifid; segments very narrow, smooth, simple or bifid. 



Rachis and stipes slender, filiform, terete, naked, and hair -like. 



Fronds from three to five inches in length. 



Involucres urceolato-cylindrical, and sunk in the frond; the 

 mouth spreading and obscurely two-lipped. 



Requires a very humid close atmosphere, with a temperature 

 ranging from 60° to 80°. 



My thanks are due to Mr. J. Smith, of the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, for fronds. 



