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It has a short stoutish decumbent caudex, clothed with dark brown narrow lanceolate scales. The fronds (those 

 grown in the south of Europe) have a stipes of about six inches long, and a lamina of over a foot ; they are leathery in 

 texture, and triangular in outline, distant in the setting on of the parts ; bipinnately almost tripinnately divided at the 

 base, with the upper surface dark green and the under side furnished with "cystoid " scales. The secondary rachides, 

 which bear pinnules of unequal size and form, are often densely clothed with plain or "cystoid " scales. The pinnules 

 on the upper side are smaller, and set-on nearer to the primary rachis ; the under surface is closely occupied on every 

 portion with sori, which are covered with reniform indusia, these being red in the centre and lead-coloured at the 

 margin. — Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xviii., p. 744. 



Angkjecum aecuatum. Lindley, A white-flowered Epiphyte from the Cape of Good 

 Hope. Blossoms in July. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Son. (Fig 1 . 189.) 



The Cape of Good Hope is not the place from which we should expect to receive Epiphytes, the numerous Orchids 

 of that country being nearly all strictly terrestrial. Nevertheless a small number of such species are known to 

 botanists chiefly through the discoveries of M. Drege, an indefatigable German collector. These plants all come from 

 a jungly swampy district lying far to the east of Cape Town, and extending northwards at the back of Algoa Bay. 

 There, in the district of Albany, this plant grows on trees ; at a place called Kopje, on limestone hills, it also appears, 

 growing on the roots of shrubs. It has a stiff hard stem, from two to six inches high, clothed with tough, leathery, 



distichous leaves, bluntly and unequally two-lobed at the point. The flowers, which are pure white, appear in lateral 

 horizontal racemes, each proceeding from a broad membranous bract, which is about as long as the internodes. The 

 sepals, petals, and lip are almost exactly alike in form, linear, taper -pointed and reflexed ; the spur is a long, tapering, 

 blunt horn, which is much longer than the lip. In this, as in other plants referred to the genus Angrsecum, the pollen 

 masses have each its own long narrow caudicle. 



Cathcahtia villosa. /. D. Hooker. A beautiful annual (?) from Sikkim-Himalaya, 

 with large yellow flowers. Belongs to Poppy worts. Introduced at Kew. 



The following is Dr. Hooker's character of this new genus : — Calyx diphyllus, foliolis asstivatione imbricatis, 

 caducis. Corollse petala 4, subrotunda, hypogyna, decidua. Stamina 25-30, hypogyna : filamenta filiformia gracilia ; 

 antherae terminales, oblongse, biloculares, loculis latere longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, connectivo interposito. Ovarium 

 cylindraceum, 5-6-sulcatum, uniloculare. Ovula numerosa, in placentas filiformes 5-6 intervalvulares demum liberas, 

 anatropa. Stigma amplum, sessile, hemisphsericum, carnosum, ovario latius, persistens, 5-6-radiatum, radiis lamelli- 

 formibus. Capsula erecta, stricta, siliquiformis, teres, unilocularis ad apicem, infra stigma persistens, fere ad basin 

 5-6-valvis, valvis linearibus ; placentis niliformibus liberis ad apicem stigmati unitis. Semina numerosa, ovalia, 

 compressa, scrobiculata, strophiolata, subcristata. — Herba annua vel biennis ex Himalaya orientali, pilis longis fulvis 

 patentibus villosa. Caulis teres, subsimplex. Folia inferiora, radicalia prsecipue, longe petiolata, cordata, subpalmatim 



