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than the barren ones, and borne on a longer and much darker-coloured stalk, 

 are erect, and provided with narrow-linear leaflets, disposed Jin. to lin. 

 apart. W. angustifolia is synonymous with this species. — Hooker, Species 

 Filicum, iii., p. 70 ; Garden Ferns, t. 61. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, 

 iv., p. 217. Lowe, Ferns British and Exotic, iv., t. 46. 



W. (Lorinseria) Harlandii— Lor-in-se'-ri-a ; Har-land'-i-i (Harland's), 

 Hooker. 



A species from Hong-Kong, with barren and fertile fronds totally 

 different. The former vary in shape from narrowly-spear-shaped and 

 undivided to broadly-egg-shaped with one or two spreading spear-shaped 

 lobes 3in. to 4in. long and Jin. to fin. broad, reaching down to a broadly- 

 winged midrib ; they are borne on erect, nearly naked stalks 6in. to Sin. 

 long, are of a leathery texture, and are naked on both surfaces. The fertile 

 fronds are provided with more numerous and narrower lobes, the lowest pair 

 often quite free from the others. — Hooker, Species Filicum, iii., p. 70 ; Filices 

 Exotica?, t. 7. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iv., p. 217. 



W, (Anchistea) japonica — Anch-is'-te-a ; jap-on'-ic-a (Japanese), 

 Swartz. 



This species, native of China and Japan, has broadly-egg-shaped fronds 

 lft. to ljft. long, 9in. to 12in. broad, and borne on erect stalks 6in. to 12in. 

 long and scaly below. The spear-shaped leaflets, often 6in. long and ljin. 

 broad, are deeply cleft into lobes about Jin. broad, which reach half or 

 two-thirds of the distance down to the rachis. The lines of spore masses, 

 which margin the midribs of the leaflets, are confined to the upper part of the 

 upper ones. — Hooker, Species Filicum, hi., p. 69. Nicholson, Dictionary of 

 Gardening, iv., p. 217. 



W. orientalis— or-i-en-ta'-lis (Eastern), Swartz. 



A very distinct and highly decorative species, found from Japan southward 

 to Formosa. It has somewhat the habit of the better-known W. radicans, 

 to which it is closely related, but in general appearance its fronds are readily 

 distinguished from those of that species (1) by their much more leathery 

 texture, (2) by their deep crimson colour when young, and (3) by the 

 numberless minute bulbils, or gemmiferous buds, which are produced on their 



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