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said to hold an intermediate position between that species and D. media. — 

 Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iv., p. 537. 



D. connexa — con-nex'-a (connected). A variety of D. media. 



D. dives — di'-ves (rich), Kunze. 



This is the tallest-growing species known in the genus ; it is a native 

 of Ceylon and Java, which sufficiently accounts for its thriving best in 

 a temperature a httle warmer than other Doodias. Its fronds are borne on 

 slender, upright stalks 6in. to 12in. long, smooth in their upper portion, but 

 clothed towards the base with dark -coloured, narrow scales. The barren ones, 

 about 1ft. long and oin. to 5in. broad, are oblong-spear-shaped and pinnatifid 

 (divided half-way to the midrib), being furnished on each side of the midrib 

 with numerous spreading leaflets 2in. to Sin. long, blunt at the point, 

 undulated and finely toothed on the margins, and suddenly dilated at the 

 base ; these are of a coriaceous (leathery) texture, and all except the lowest 

 are connected. The fertile fronds are longer and furnished with very narrow 

 leaflets, the central ones being disposed lin. apart ; they are connected by 

 a broad wing joining the rachis (stalk of the leafy portion). The sori (spore 

 masses) are narrow-oblong and disposed in two irregular rows nearer the 

 midrib than the edge of the leaflets. — Hooker, Species Filicum, iii., p. 74. 

 Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 486. Beddome, Ferns of Southern 

 India, t. 222. 



D. duriuscula — du-ri-us'-cul-a (rather hard). A form of D. media. 



D. Harryana — Har-ry-a'-na (Harry Yeitch's). A variety of D. caudata. 



D. Kunthiana— Kunth-i-a'-na (Kunth's). A variety of D. media. 



D. linearis — li-ne-a'-ris (long and narrow). Synonymous with D. caudata 

 conflue?is. 



D. lunulata — lu-nul-a'-ta (crescent- shaped). A synonym of D. media. 



D. media — med'-i-a (middle or medium), B. Brown. 



A very pretty, greenhouse species, native of Australia and New Zealand, 

 and also known as D. lunulata. It has spear-shaped fronds 1ft. to l^ft. long, 

 IJin. to oin. broad, and borne on slender, smooth stalks of a delicate pink 



