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G. (Eugymnogramme) microphylla — Eu-gym-nog-ram'-me ; mi-croph- 

 yF-la (small-leaved), Hooker. 

 A very pretty and distinct, greenliouse species, of small dimensions — 

 indeed one of the smallest of the whole genus — native of the Khasya Hills. 

 Notwithstanding their small size, its triangular 

 fronds, borne on densely -tufted, slender, fragile 

 stalks 2in. to 4in. long and of a chestnut-brown 

 colour, are very finely divided, being quadri- 

 pinnatifid (four times divided half-way to the 

 midrib). Their leaflets, also triangular, are 

 closely set and are further cut into pinnules 

 (leafits) of similar shape, their ultimate divi- 

 sions being very small. The texture is thin 

 and papery, and the oblong sori (spore masses) 

 are disposed one on each of the ultimate divi- 

 sions. Fig. 66 is reduced from Col. Beddome's 

 " Ferns of British India," by the kind per- 

 mission of the author. — Hooker Species Filiciiin, 

 v., p. 129 ; Second Century of Ferns, t. 15. Fig. 66. Gymnogramme microphylla 



Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. 148. a uat. size). 



G. (Eugymnogramme) mohriaeformis— Eu-gym-nog-ram'-me ; moh- 

 ri-te-for'-mis (Mohria-shaped), Mettenius. 

 Another stove species, of small dimensions, native of Peru, and essentially 

 distinct through the elongated -triangular shape of its fronds, which are seldom 

 more than Sin. long, lin. broad, and bipinnate (twice divided to the midrib) ; 

 they are borne on tufted, wiry stalks oin. to 4in. long, of a peculiar dark 

 purplish-brown colour, and shghtly hairy. The lower leaflets, which are the 

 largest, measure about Jin. long by Jin. broad, and are cut down nearly or 

 quite to the rachis into roundish, notched, leathery lobes. The sori are small 

 and oblong. — Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 128. 



G. (Eugymnogramme) Muelleri — Eu-gym-nog-ram'-me ; Muel'-ler-i 

 (Baron von Mueller's), Hooker. 

 This singular and interesting species, which succeeds equally well under 

 either cool or warm treatment, is a native of ISTorth-East Austraha and 



