CHOICE STOVE FERNS. 
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DAVALLIA FIJIENSIS 
A ohanningly elegant Fern, free in growth, firm and durable in texture, cvergi'een in habit, and 
bright green in colour, introduced from the Fiji Islands. The fronds grow two or three feet in height, 
and have a deltoid outline, the caudately elongated points of the fronds and of the pinna; being 
gracefully dellexed : they arc compoundly divided in a (juadripinnatifid manner, the whole frond 
being split up into lanceolate pinnules and piunulets, and finally cut into narrow blunt linear or bifid 
divisions. This was one of the New Plants with which 3Ir. AV'. B. gained the First Prize at the 
International Horticultural Exliibition, held at Ghent in 1878, and at the Great Show of the Koyal 
Horticultural .Society, held at Kenrington in 1880. 7s. 6cl. .and lOs. 6fl. 
DAVALLIA FIJIENSIS PLUMOSA. 
This is certainly one of the most charming in the whole range of evergreen stove Ferns — one of the 
most lovely forms of a remarkably ornamental family. It has creeping whitey-brown rhizomes, and 
from those spring up at intervals the gracefully-drooping, feathery, plumose fronds, which grow on 
stalks a fool or more in length, supporting a broad triangular lamina, which curves over in the mo.'-t 
elegant manner. It will be a grand subject for all decorative purposes, especially useful for cutting, 
and a noble Fern for e.xhibition specimens. As its name implies, it is a native of the Fiji Islands. 
In speaking of the best novelties, the Gardeners’ Ckrouielc (Jan. 7th, 1882, page 10), remarks : 
“The Varal/ia Jijicnsis plumosa is, perhaps, one of the most elegant of all known Ferns.” It 
has received a First Class Certificate from the Floral Committee of the Iloyal Horticultural Societv. 
For illustration, vide page 140. 15s. and 1 guinea. 
DAVALLIA AFPINIS, 5s. I DAVALLIA MOOEEANA, 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6F. 
HEMIPTBRA, .5s. ' | PARATULA, 5s. 
DAVALLIA LORRAINII. 
A very beaut iful evergreen Fern of the D. disseefa type. The rhizomes are clothed with spreading 
.scales of a p.ilo tawny brown, and produce fronds at short intervals. The fronds are triangula" 
about a foot long, and nearly as much across the base, the apc.\ of the frond itself, and of the larger 
pinnie being very much .attenuated ; they are tripinnate, the ultimate segments being ovate, the lobes 
having a. marginal tooth. It is a very desirable addition to evergreen Ferns, and comes from the 
'.Malay peninsula. 10s. 6d. and 15s. 
DAVALLIA PENTAPHYLLA, 3s. 6d. DAVALLIA (HDMATA) TYERMANNI, 3s. 6d. 
DIPLAZIUM ARNOTTII, 7s. 6d. 
DORYOPTERIS PALMATA, 3s. 6(7. 
GLEICHBNIAS, vide page 143. 
POLYANTHA, 3s. 6d. 
SOLIDA, 3s. 6d. 
TENUIFOLIA, 3s. Gd. 
ELAPHOGLOSSUM HERMINIERI. 
This handsome aerostichoid Fern was introduced from Central America by Dr. Seemann, who com- 
pares its long, drooping, shining fronds to clusters of silvery cels, whence he proposes for it tin- 
popular name of Fel Fern. The sterile fronds are sessile, sword-shaped, t.airering gradually to each 
end, very thick in texture, with a glosSj' surface of an iridescent glaucous green colour. The fertile 
fronds are much shorter, three to four inches long, and oblong in outline. 15s. and 1 guinea. 
