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4: feet high and flowers in the open about the middle of July. The 

 flowers measure 3 inches across and are reddish-orange in colour and 

 numerous small brown spots cover the recurved petals. The stamens 

 are chocolate brown and the leaves are narrow, linear, and about 5 

 inches long. One of the plants exhibited had a spike bearing twenty 

 flowers and buds. (Fig. 118.) 



Fig. 111. — PoLYPODiUM Mandaianum. (Manda.) 



To Polypodium Mandaianum (votes, unanimous), from Mr. W. A. 

 Manda, St. Albans. A magnificent fern having glaucous green crested 

 fronds from 5 to 6 'feet in length and sometimes reaching 30 inches in 

 breadth. The fronds are deeply serrated and gracefully undulating. 

 The plant is said to do well in either a cold or a warm house, and to 



