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as they are very blunt, sometimes nearly round. These pinnae, of a coriaceous 

 (leathery) texture and dark green colour, have their upper side often cordate 

 (heart-shaped), whilst their lower side is merely rounded, at the base. The 

 sori (spore masses), which are linear-oblong in shape and very abundantly 

 produced, are disposed two or three on each side of the midrib. — 

 Hooker, Species Filicum, iii., p. 142. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, 

 i., p. 129. 



A. Fabianum — Fab-I-a'-num (Fabia's), Jacquin. An essentially distinct 

 form of the popular A. bulbiferum. 



A. (Euasplenium) Fadyeni— Eu-as-ple'-ni-um ; Fad'-yen-i (McFadyen's), 

 Hooker. 



A stove species, native of Jamaica, and of very little decorative value; 

 it appears to be simply a feebler plant than the less-cut forms of A. rhizo- 

 phyllum, with fewer and more distant leaflets and leafits. — Hooker, Sp>ecies 

 Filicum, hi., p. 192. 



A. (Euasplenium) falcatum— Eu-as-ple/-ni-um ; fal-ca'-tum (hooked), 



Lamarck. 



A very widely-distributed, greenhouse species, of particularly elegant 

 habit, native of the Polynesian Islands, Australia, Ceylon, and, according to 

 Beddome, of the Anamallay Mountains, where it is found growing on rocks 

 at an elevation of 3,500ft. Its fronds, 6in. to 18in. long and 4in. to 6in. 

 broad, are borne on firm, erect, nearly naked stipites (stalks) 6in. to 9in. 

 long and of a greyish colour; they are furnished with from twelve to twenty 

 pairs of pinnae (leaflets) placed in a nearly horizontal position. These leaflets 

 are from 2in. to 3in. long, about lin. broad, and terminate in a long, tapering 

 point, their edges being lobed often one -third of the way down and the 

 lobes sharply toothed ; they are of a coriaceous (leathery) texture and dark 

 green colour, and the sori (spore masses) are disposed in long, irregular lines, 

 which extend from the midvein nearly to the edge of the leaflets. 

 A. falcatum of Beddome is a synonym of A. crinicaule. — Hooker, Species 

 Filicum, iii., p. 160. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 130. 

 Beddome, Ferns of Southern India, t. 141. 



