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ASPL,KNl\jyi— continued. 
rows parallel to the midvein. The stalks on which they are 
borne, claret-coloured in their entire length, form a pleasing 
and striking contrast to the bright grey colour of the 
leaflets next on each side, which disposition forms a central 
grey band running through the whole length of the frond, 
and is as effective as in the better-known Fteris quadri- 
aurifa tricolor. 
Fig. 74. Asplenium Hemionitis multifidum, a beautiful variely 
having fronds as broad as they are long, and their main 
divisions deeply cut, giving them a fringed outline. 
A. Q. tricolon 
Synonymous with A. Goringianum pictum. 
A. Hemionitis. 
This very distinct greenhouse species, perhaps the most 
striking of all the known species with lobed fronds, is a 
native of Madeira, the Canaries, the Azores, and Teneriffe; 
it is much more commonly known by the name of A. palma- 
tum on account of the peculiar shape of its fronds, which 
are borne on firm, naked, dark-coloured stalks 4in. to Sin. 
long. These fronds, 4in. to Bin. each way, usually lOin. 
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