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blunt, entire lobes only Jin. broad. They are borne on erect, rigid, slender 

 stalks 4in. to 5in. long, clothed with short, black hairs, are of a soft, papery 

 texture, and are naked on both sides. — Hooker, Species Filicum, iv., p. 202. 



P. subsessile — sub-ses'-sil-e (almost stalkless), Baker. 



A stove species, native of Colombia, Guiana, and Ecuador, having 

 distinctly -pinnate fronds Gin. to 18in. long and l^in. to 2in. broad, and with 

 scarcely any stalk. The distant, linear, bluntish leaflets are entire or slightly 

 notched, and suddenly enlarged at the base so as to be almost or quite 

 connected ; the lower ones are reduced to a mere zigzag wing to the rachis. 

 The fronds are of a soft, papery texture, naked or even glossy on both sides, 

 and the spore masses are disposed in two long rows. — Hooker, Species 

 Filicum, iv., p. 192, t. 275b. 



P. (Phymatodes) superficiale — Phy-mat-o'-des ; sup-er-fic-i-a'-le 

 (superficial), Blume. 

 A greenhouse species, of little decorative value, with entire fronds gradually 

 narrowed at both ends ; it is characterised in the group by its large, copious, 

 irregularly -scattered spore masses. It is a native of Northern India, where 

 it is found at various elevations from 3000ft. to 6000ft. — Hooker, Species 

 Filicum, v., p. 71. Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. 75. 



P. (Goniophlebium) surrucuchense — Go-m-oph-leV-i-um ; sur-ru- 

 cuch-en'-se (native of Surrucuchu), Hooker. 

 In this stove species, native of Ecuador and the West Indies, the distinctly- 

 pinnate fronds, borne on firm, naked stalks 6in. to 12in. long and of a glossy 

 nature, are produced from a stout rhizome densely clothed with grey, spear- 

 shaped scales ; they are from 1ft. to 2ft. long, Sin. to 12in. broad, and furnished 

 with numerous leaflets 4in. to Gin. long, of a leathery texture, and naked on 

 both sides, with prominent spore masses disposed in a single series. — Hooker, 

 Species Filicum, v., p. 30 ; Icones Filicum, t. 69. Nicholson, Dictionary of 

 Gardening, hi., p. 194. 



P. (Phymatodes) Swartzii — Phy-mat-o'-des ; Swartz'-i-i (Swartz's), Baker. 



A stove species, of botanical interest only, also known as P. serpens of 

 Swartz, native of Cayenne and the West Indies. It produces from a slender, 



