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Gl^KlCHKNlA—coritinMed. 
lobes, which, instead of being circinate, are perfectly flat, 
is of a beautiful silvery colour. This variety is also 
known in gardens under the name of G. c. glauca. 
Q, c. semi=vestita. 
A handsome, stove variety, native of New Caledonia 
and Malacca, differing from the species, and also from 
its other forms, by its close habit and very erect mode of 
growth. 
Q. c. speluncae. 
Perhaps this rare, large-growing and essentially distinct 
variety is the most handsome and decorative of the whole 
group of plants with beaded fronds. It is a native of 
New South Wales and Tasmania, and is easily recognised 
by its pendent but not curving fronds, which are produced 
in abundance and divided into elegantly-arching or pen- 
dulous leaflets, loosely and gracefully set. 
G. dicarpa. 
An elegant and equally variable greenhouse species, 
native of Australia and Tasmania, where it is very abun- 
dant, and also of the Isle of Pines and of New Caledonia. 
It is distinguishable from all the other species belonging 
to the same section by its graceful fronds, of variable 
length, being repeatedly divided in two only, the leaflets 
being again pinnatifid, and by their lobes or segments 
being small, round, deeply pouched, pale green below, and 
of a dark shining green above. The sori consist of two 
capsules, concealed in the almost slipper-shaped lobes, and 
are mixed with rusty-coloured hairs which often extend 
to the stalks. In commerce there are several very hand- 
some forms of this variable species, the most noteworthy 
of which is G. d. longipinnata, a remarkiably handsome, 
greenhouse form, which must not be confounded with 
6r. longipinnata of Hooker (a variety of G. puhescens) ; it 
is a native of Tasmania, whence it is occasionally imported 
lamong plants of the typical species. The fronds, which are 
longer than those of the type, and of an exceedingly 
graceful habit, have their pendulous leaflets formed of 
numerous small and very deeply-pouched segments, the 
pouching being caused by the recurving of their edges. 
Q. dichotoma. 
This handsome, distinct, stove species is one of the 
most widely distributed of the whole group, being found 
in tropical and sub-tropical regions in the New and in 
the Old World, in the Pacific Islands, and as far north 
as Japan. On account of this extensive distribution, it 
