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Pl^ATYCKRlVM-eontinued. 
a warmer temperature than the species, the foliage is much 
Larger land the entire pliant shows a much more robust habit. 
(Fig. 114, for which we are indebted to Messrs. James Veitch 
land Sons). There is also a seedling variety Mayii, that 
emanated from Mr. H. B. May'© collection. Its segments 
are wider than those of the type, and the divisions are 
longer. 
Fig. 114. Platycerium alcicorne majus, an Australian variety 
with much larger fronds, and of more robust habit than 
the type. 
P. grande. 
A magnificent stove species, a native of North Aus- 
tralia, Singapore, and the Philippines. The barren fronds, 
which are very large, stalkless, nearly round, and ascending, 
have their upper portion divided into a number of broad, 
blunt segments of a spongy texture and pale green colour, 
covered when young with a light, woolly substance, which 
gradually disappears as the frond becomes mature. The 
fertile fronds, 4ft. to 6ft. long and of a pendulous nature, 
are usually produced in pairs and provided with a broadly 
wedge-shaped disk : this becomes completely covered with 
the fructification, which forms a large triangular patch, 
and it bears at each corner a repeatedly-forked division 
extending a good distance beyond it, but always remaining 
barren. 
