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masses) are long and narrow, and disposed one to each ultimate lobe. As 

 its name implies, this pretty little species is a native of Ascension Island. — 

 Hoohei', Species Filicum, v., p. 136. 



G. (Stenogramme) aspidioides — Sten-og-ram'-me ; as-pid^-i-6-i'-des 

 (Aspidium-hke), Hooker. 

 A stove species, native of Khasya, Ceylon, and Java, where, according 

 to Beddome, it is found growing at elevations varying between 4000ft. and 

 6000ft. The fronds are oblong- spear- shaped, 1ft. to IJft. long, 6in. to lOin. 

 broad, and simply pinnate (only once divided to the midrib) ; their spear- 

 shaped leaflets, Sin. to Sin. long and about lin. broad, are bluntly lobed, 

 and more or less hairy on both surfaces. The stalks on which these fronds 

 are borne are hairy and 6in. to 9in. long. — Hooker, Species Filicum, v., 

 p. 150. Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. 149. 



G. (Leptogramme) asplenioides — Lep-tog-ram'-me ; as-ple'-ni-6-i'-des 

 (Asplenium-like), Kaulfuss. 

 In this greenhouse species, native of Panama and South Brazil, the 

 fronds, which are produced from a stout and somewhat upright-growing 

 rhizome (stem), are borne on hairy stalks 2in. to 6in. long and scaly at 

 the base, and are bipinnatifid (twice divided half-way to the midrib) ; they 

 are 6in. to 12in. long and Sin. to 4in. broad, and are furnished with 

 horizontal, sessile (stalkless) leaflets IJin. to 2in. long, about |in. broad, 

 varying from nearly entire to cut more than half-way down to the midrib 

 in the lower part, of a papery texture, and with midribs slightly hairy on 

 both sides. The sori (spore masses) are oblong in shape. — Hooker, Species 

 Filicum, v., p. 132. 



G. aurea — au'-re-a (golden). A variety of G. argentea. 



G. (Eugymnogramme) aureo-nitens — Eu-gym-nog-ram'-me ; au'-re-o- 

 nit'-ens (golden and shining). Hooker. 

 A stove species, of medium size, native of Peru, and thoroughly distinct 

 through the rachis (stalk of the leafy portion) of its fronds being very flexuose 

 (zigzag). These fronds are borne on stout stalks, densely clothed with dark, 

 rusty-coloured wool, and are tripinnatifid (three times divided half-way to the 



