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lanceolate, witli lancoolate-aouminate, rather membranous, bright green pinnoe, which are articulated with the 
rachis, serrated, and decurrent at the base. Sori large, uniserial, yellowish brown, each furnished with numerous 
laoiniated scales, which are soon obliterated by the spore-cases ; they are immersed, forming elevated protu- 
berances on the upper surface of the frond. 
5. G. VERRUcosuM, J. Smith. — An ornamental evergreen stove species, from the Philippine Islands and 
Singapore. Fronds slender, slightly pubescent, four to five feet long, pendulous, lanceolate-acuminate, with 
oblong-acuminate, undulated, bright green pinnae, which are slightly serrated, round at the base, and articulated 
with the rachis. Sori uniserial, immersed, forming elevated protuberances on the upper surface of the frond. 
Eachis and stipes scaly, and articulated with a creeping rhizome. 
6. G. SUBAURICULATUM, (PoLVPODiUM, Blume ; G. Eeinwardtii, Be Vriese; P. Eeinwardtii, 
— A very elegant evergreen stove species, from Java and Luzon. Fronds slender, lanceolate, pinnate, from 
four to six feet long, with long, narrow, lanceolate-acuminate, membranous bright green pinnm, which are 
serrate, subauriculate at the base, and articulated with the rachis. Sori uniserial, yellowish brown, each 
furnished with numerous laoiniated scales, which are soon lost by the swelling of the spore-cases ; they are im- 
mersed, forming elevated protuberances on the upper surface. Eachis and stipes brown, pubescent, articulated 
with a scaly creeping rhizome. This species is one of the most beautiful of the Bolypodiece, and the most orna- 
mental of all herbaceous species yet in cultivation ; the fronds being long, very slender and pendulous, measuring 
sometimes eight feet long, and having fifty-eight pairs of pinnm, with a stipes not more than eight inches long. 
? Goniophlebia VERA, J. Smith . 
7. G. VACciNiFOLiuM, J. Smith (PoLYPODiuM, Lmigsdorf and Fischer; Craspedaria, Xm?/c). — A dwarf, creep- 
ing, evergreen, stove species, from the West Indies and South America. Fronds of two kinds : sterile — simple 
glabrous, sub-rotund or oblong, decurrent at the base, dark green, about half an inch high : fertile — linear, simple 
glabrous, two inches long, decurrent at the base. Both kinds are lateral, articulated on a thick, brown, scaly 
creeping rhizome. Sori terminal, uniserial. 
8. G. Catharinye, j. Smith (Polypodium, Langsdorf and Fischer; P. glaucum, Raddi). — A handsome, 
stiff-growing, stove Fern, from Brazil. Fronds one foot to a foot and a-half high, somewhat lanceolate, broad at 
the base, with an elongated bluntish point, dark green, paler beneath, quite smooth ; subpinnate below, deeply 
pinnatifid above ; pinnie approximate, elongate-oblong, undulated, entire, narrowed near the base, and very 
blunt at the apex, the lowest shorter, standing forward, and decurrent at the base. Sori uniserial near the costa, 
extending from the base to the apex of the frond, and from the base nearly to the apex of the segments. Stipes 
smooth, a little margined upwards. Fronds articulated with a thick, green, creeping, caispitose rhizome, which 
is covered with imbricating, ovate-acuminate peltate, dark-coloured scales. New-hay-scented when dry. We 
are indebted to Mr. Henderson, of Wentworth, for this species, which is undoubtedly the Polypodium glaucum of 
Eaddi, and distinct from G. Catharinm, of gardens. 
9. G. LATiPES, J. Smith (PoLYPODiuM, Langsdorf and Fischer ; G. CatharinyB, of gardens). — An evergreen 
ornamental stove Fern, from Brazil. Fronds glabrous, oblong-elongate or broadly-lanceolate, deeply-pinnatifid 
or sub-pinnate, broad at the base, from one to two feet long, dull green ; segments lanceolate, three to six inches 
long, acutish or obtuse at the apex ; lower ones undulated, standing forward, sub-defiexed, and crenulate on the 
margin. Sori uniserial. Fronds lateral, articulated on a creeping rhizome, which is densely covered with 
imbricate, peltate, acuminate, brown scales. 
10. G. LORiCEUM, M. and S. (Polypodium, Linnmus; P. ramosum, Loddiges: G. latipes, of gardens). — 
Fronds glabrous, lanceolate, deeply pinnatifid or subpinnate, slender, and somewhat pendulous, from one to two 
feet long, dull green, segments linear-oblong, rather membranous, acute or acuminate at the apex, undulated, 
slightly falcate, and crenulate at the margin. Sori small, uniserial or biserial. Fronds lateral, articulated on 
a green creeping rhizome as large as a swan’s quill, which is covered with peltate, fimbriate scales. 
11. G. HARPEODES, /. Smith (PoLYPODiUM, Lutk). — A tall-growing evergreen stove species, from Brazil. 
Fronds glabrous, broadly-lanceolate, three to four feet long, dull green, erect, the stipes nearly half the length of 
the fronds ; they are articulated on a short, thick, scaly, creeping rhizome. Frond deeply pinnatifid or subpin- 
nate, with lanceolate-acuminate, nearly entire, scimetar-shaped pinnai, the lower ones standing forward. Sori 
large, yellowish brown, uniserial. 
12. G. VACILLANS, M. and H. (Polypodium vacillans. Link; P. repandulum, Kaulfuss). — An evergreen 
stove Fern, from Brazil. Fronds glabrous, triangulaiiy-elongate, subpinnate, one and a half to two feet long, 
darkish green ; segments linear-lanceolate, adnate, repand, dilated on both sides at the base, obtuse at the apex, 
entire at the margin. Sori uniserial. Fronds lateral, articulated on a creeping rhizome. This Fern is in the 
collection of G. Norman, Esq., of Hull. 
13. G. suBPETioLATUM, M. and II . (Polypodium, Hooker). — A large evergreen greenhouse Fern, from Mexico 
and Guatemala. Fronds pubescent, lanceolate, two to three feet long, pinnate ; pinnae without a footstalk, four 
to six inches long, linear, attenuated at the apex, and irregularly crenato-serrate. Sori uniserial ; nearly all the 
fronds soriferous throughout. Fronds lateral, articulated on a scaly creeping rhizome. Specimens of this Fern, 
recently communicated from Wentworth, prove it to be, when fully developed, a species of Goniophlehium ; 
though when in a less vigorous condition the veins are free. 
