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P. Kingiana — King-i-a'-na (King's). This is a variety of the popular 

 P. tremula. 



P. (Litobrochia) Kunzeana — Li-tob-roch'-i-a ; Kunz-e-a'-na (Kunze's), 

 Agardh. 

 A strong-growing, stove species, native of Tropical America, its habitat 

 extending from the West Indies and Ecuador southward to Peru. Its ample 

 fronds, borne on strong, erect, straw-coloured or reddish-brown stalks 3ft. long, 

 have their terminal leaflet 1ft. long, Sin. broad, and cut down two-thirds of 

 the way to the rachis into numerous narrow, sharp-pointed, sickle-shaped lobes. 

 The numerous lateral leaflets are disposed in nearly opposite pairs, the lower 

 ones being stalked ; the lowest pair are large, deltoid (in shape of the Greek 

 delta, a), compound below, and furnished with smaller similar- shaped leafits ; 

 all are of a leathery texture and naked on both surfaces. The spore masses 

 fall short of the extremity of the leafits. — Hooker, Species Filicum., ii., 

 p. 221, t. 139. 



P. laciniata — lac-in-i-a'-ta (torn), Willdenow. 



This stove species, sometimes found in gardens under the name of 

 Lonchitls Mrsuta, is a native of the West Indies, Mexico, and Peru. Its 

 fronds, deltoid and tripinnatifid (in form of the Greek delta, A, and three 

 times divided nearly to the midrib), are Ift. to 2ft. long, and borne on stout, 

 erect stalks Ift. or more in length and very hairy. The lower leaflets, Ift. 

 to IJft. long and Gin. to 9in. broad, are furnished on each side with numerous 

 spear-shaped leafits, which are cut down to a broadly-winged rachis into lobes 

 Jin. long and Jin. broad. These lobes are of a soft, papery texture, hairy on 

 both surfaces, and the spore masses do not reach their point. — Hooker, Species 

 Filicum, ii., p. 176, t. 132b. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iii., p. 243. 



P. 1. Ghiesbreghtii — Ghies-bregh'-ti-i (Ghiesbreght's), /. Smith. 



This plant, which is the Lonchitis Ghiesbreghtii of Linden, is a variety 

 with foliage less hairy throughout. — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 160. 



P. (Litobrochia) lancesefolia — Li-tob-roch'-i-a ; Ian-ce-«-fol'-i-a (having 

 spear-shaped leaves), Agardh. 

 A stove species, from Madagascar, with simply-pinnate fronds 1ft. to IJft. 

 long, 6in. to Bin. broad, and borne on erect, pale, glossy stalks. The narrow. 



