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CHOICE STOVE FERNS. 
OLBIOHBNIAS, vide page 141. 
GONIOPHLBBIUM 8UBAURI0ULATUM, 
3a. M. 
QYMNOQBAMMA CALOMBLANOS, 2a. 6cJ. 
and 3a, 6d. 
GYMNOGRAMMA CHBYSOPHYLLA, 2a. 6!^. 
and 3a. 6d. 
DBCOMPOSITA, 3a. M. 
LAUCHBANA, 3a. U. 
GIGANTEA, Ea. 
G-YMNOO-RAMMA MERTENSII DOBROYDENSIS. 
A pretty form of Gold Fern, with the shortish triangular fronds, and irregular-shaped pinnules of 
O. MerUnsii, densely clothed with golden powder beneath, and partially so on the upper surface of the 
younger fronds. 6a. 
GYMNOGRAMMA PERUVIANA ARGYROPHYLLA. 
Beautifully silvered above and below the fronds, and of neat and compact habit. 3a. 6d. 
GYMNOGRAMIVIA WBTENHALLIANA. 
An exceedingly handsome species, richly powdered Avith sulphur, and having the ends of the fronds 
finely tasselled. 2a. 6d, and 3a. 6d. 
GYMNOTHEOA RADDIANA. 
A noble Brazilian stove Fern of the Marattiaceous order, and one of the plants included in Mamllia 
cicutxfoUa by some authors. It has a large purplish-brown root-stock, formed by the imbricating 
stipuliform bases of the stout fleshy stipites, and produces ample bipiunate bright glossy gieen fronds, 
the pinnse of which are lanceolate, and the pinnules linear with the posterior base cordate, the anterior 
base truncate, and the apex acuminate, while the margin is distinctly serrated with sharp even teeth. 
This plant can be recommended as being of noble and ornamental character. 2 and 3 guineas. 
HYMENODIUM CRINITUM, 6s. and 7s. 6d. 
LASTREA QUINQUANGULARE, 3s. U. 
LOMARIA GIBBA, Is. U. and 2s. id. 
LYGODIUM SOANDBN8, 3s. id. 
MICROLBPIA HIRTA ORISTATA, 3s. 6d. 
NEPHROLEPI8 DUPPII, vide page 139. 
NBPHRODIUM TRUNOATUM. 
An elegant free-growing subarborescent stove Fern introduced from the Sandwich Islands. It is 
well figured by Gaudichaud in his account of the plants of Freycinet’s Voyage, and is quite distinct 
from the N. truncatwm (abi'uptum) of gardens. It has a short erect caudex, with smooth green 
stipites. The fronds are largo, lanceolate-ovate in outline, palish gi'een in colour, of a firm membra- 
naceous texture, and are chiefly remarkable in the pinnato-pinnatifid series for their elegantly wavy 
surface. 7s. id. 
NEPHROLEPIS ENSIPOLIA. 
A pretty Fern for suspended baskets. Es. 
NEPHROLEPI8 PECTINATA, 3s. id. I PLATYOBRIUM GRANDE, lEs. and 21s. 
PHLEBODIUM GLAUCUM, 3s. 6d. and 6s. 1 8TEMMARIA, 10s. id. and 16s. 
PLBOCNEMIA LEUZEANA. 
This remarkably handsome stove Fern is of arborescent habit. The fronds are as broad as long, 
triangular, and tripinnate in the basal pinnaj. The pinnules appear doflexed from being sot on below 
the surface of the rachides, which thus appear raised and produce a kind of ridge and furrow appearance. 
The ordinary pinnules are cut into ovate or oblong-toothed lobes, the sinuses being reftexed, which 
gives a crisped appearance to the surface. The specimens now oflered were imported from the 
Philippine Islands, but it is found also in India, China, the Moluccas, and in some of the Pacific 
Islands. 5s. and 7s. id. 
POLYSTICHUM VIVIPARUM, vide page 140. | PTBRIS, of sorts, 2s. id. and 3s. id. 
SADLBRIA OYATHEOIDES. 
A very handsome Tree Fern of moderate stature, introduced from the Sandwich Islands. The fronds 
are bold and of coriaceous texture, the pinnaj cut down to the rachis into numerous linear pinnules. 
The sori foim a continuous line on each side of the mid-rib, in the way of Bleelinum, to which genus it 
is closely related, differing technically in the fact of the veins forming a series of costal arches. This 
was one of the twelve N ew Plants with which Mr. W. B. gained the First Prize at the International 
Horticultural Exhibition, held at Dundee in 1876. 1, IJ and 2 guineas. 
