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Java and Khasya, where it grows at an elevation of 6000ft. Its egg- 

 shaped fronds, borne on naked, upright stalks 1ft. long, are from 1ft. to 

 2ft. in length, 6in. to 9in. in breadth, and furnished with leaflets of a 

 leathery texture, Sin. to 5in. long, about Jin. broad, gradually and sharply 

 narrowed towards the point, and narrowed also on both sides at the base, 

 where they become contiguous. The fertile fronds are of similar size and 

 shape, but their leaflets are contracted and distantly 23laced, not connected 

 at the base. — Hooher, Species Filicum, iii., p. 22. 



L. lanceolata — lan-ce-ol-a'-ta (spear-shaped), /Spmi^eZ. 



An exceedingly pretty, evergreen, greenhouse species, native of New 

 Zealand, Tasmania, Austraha, and the Polynesian Islands, and one which 

 is particularly attractive on account of its dwarf and compact habit, as 

 well as through the lively colour of its young barren fronds, which are 

 beautifully ornamented by the bright orange-red coloured rachis (stalk) 

 which runs through their centre. The barren fronds are 6in. to 12in. 

 long, 2in. to 4in. broad, borne on dark brown stalks 4in. to 6in. long, 

 and abundantly produced from a close, fleshy crown. The closely-set 

 leaflets, of a leathery texture and bright green colour, are somewhat 

 sickle-shaped, gradually narrowed to a point, slightly toothed, and smooth 

 on both sides. The fertile fronds, which are distinctly pinnate (divided 

 to the midrib), of a more upright habit, and seldom more than Sin. long, 

 are furnished with contracted, sickle-shaped leaflets about |in. apart at the 

 base. — Hooker, Species Filicum, iii., p. 11 ; Icones Plantarum, t. 429. 

 Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, ii., p. 294. Lowe, Ferns British and 

 Exotic, iv., t. 61. 



L. Lenormandi — Len-or'-mand-i (Lenormand's), Baker. 



A stove species, of medium growth, native of New Caledonia, with 

 barren fronds oblong-spear-shaped, 1ft. to IJft. long, 6in. to Sin. broad, 

 and borne on strong, upright stalks 4in. to 6in. long, densely clothed 

 with long, narrow, hair-like scales of a brown colour. The numerous 

 leaflets, Sin. to 4in. long, about Jin. broad, and of a soft, papery texture, 

 are cut very nearly to the rachis (stalk of the leafy portion) into finely- 

 toothed, linear-falcate (narrow-sickle-shaped) leafits, the lower ones growing 



