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Choice Ferns for Amateurs. 
ASPljKNllJyi— continued, 
proliferous lat their extremity (Fig. 15). The lowest lobes 
which are oblong or roundish, reach down nearly or quite 
to the crown. The large and comparatively few sori occupy 
much of the lower surface, where they reach nearly to the 
edge. 
A. Baptistii. 
This very handsome stove species, of medium growth, 
is a native of the South Sea Islands, the habitat of many 
good Ferns known in cultivation It is a perfectly dis- 
tinct plant, producing from a stout, decumbent stem broadly 
ovate fronds about 1ft. long, borne on stalks Gin. to Sin. 
Fig, 71. Asplenium Belangeri, a species noteworthy for the 
disposition of its fronds in a graceful plume. 
long; they are bipinnate. The leaflets, about 5in. long, are 
borne on short stalks ; each of them is provided with four 
narrow leafits 2in. long, equally disposed on short, slender 
stalks, and a terminal lobe, SJin. long and Jin. broad, fur- 
nished w^ith distinct marginal teeth pointing forwards, and 
terminating in a long-attenuated point, which is toothed 
nearly to the end. The slender stalks of both leaflets and 
leafits give a very open appearance to the centre of the 
fronds, which are of a thick and leathery texture, and dark 
green in colour. The long, narrow, and straight sori are 
parallel with^ and close to, the midrib. 
A, Belan^eri, 
An evergreen stove species, native of Java, Sumatra, 
and Borneo, and one of the most elegant of the genus, 
