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blunt, entire lobes only Jin. broad. They are borne on erect, rigid, slender 

 stalks 4in. to 5in. long, clothed with short, black hairs, are of a soft, papery 

 texture, and are naked on both sides. — Hooker, Species Filicum, iv., p. 202. 



P. SUbsessile — sub-ses'-sil-e (almost stalkless). Baker. 



A stove species, native of Colombia, Guiana, and Ecuador, having 

 distinctly-pinnate fronds 6in. to 18in. long and IJin. to 2in. broad, and with 

 scarcely any stalk. The distant, linear, bluntish leaflets are entire or slightly 

 notched, and suddenly enlarged at the base so as to be almost or quite 

 connected ; the lower ones are reduced to a mere zigzag wing to the rachis. 

 The fronds are of a soft, papery texture, naked or even glossy on both sides, 

 and the spore masses are disposed in two long rows. — Hooker, Species 

 Filicum, iv., p. 192, t. 275b. 



P. (Phymatodes) superficiale — Phy-mat-o'-des ; sup-er-fic-i-a'-le 

 (superficial), Blume. 

 A greenhouse species, of little decorative value, with entire fronds gradually 

 narrowed at both ends ; it is characterised in the group by its large, copious, 

 irregiilarly- scattered spore masses. It is a native of Northern India, where 

 it is found at various elevations from 3000ft. to 6000ft. — Hooker, Species 

 Filicum, v., p. 71. Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. 75. 



P. (Goniophlebium) surrucuchense — Go-ni-oph-leV i-um ; sur-ru- 

 cuch-en'-se (native of Surrucuchu), Hooker. 

 In this stove species, native of Ecuador and the West Indies, the distinctly- 

 pinnate fronds, borne on firm, naked stalks 6in. to 12in. long and of a glossy 

 nature, are produced from a stout rhizome densely clothed with grey, spear- 

 shaped scales ; they are from Ift. to 2ft. long, Sin. to 12in. broad, and furnished 

 with numerous leaflets 4in. to 6in. long, of a leathery texture, and naked on 

 both sides, with prominent spore masses disposed in a single series. — Hooker, 

 Species Filicum, v., p. 30 ; Icones Filicum, t. 69. Nicholson, Dictionary of 

 Gardening, iii., p. 194. 



P. (Phymatodes) Swartzii — Phy-mat-o'-des ; Swartz'-i-i (Swartz's), Baker. 



A stove species, of botanical interest only, also known as P. serpens of 



Swartz, native of Cayenne and the West Indies. It produces from a slender. 



