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> H. fuciforme (Sw.) After years of repeated failure we have at 
last succeeded in importing living plants of this truly 
magnificent species, from Southern Chili. It has broad, 
erect, thrice divided (tri~pinnatifid), bluish green, smooth 
fronds, 1^- to feet high ! Stalks rigid, broadly winged. 
40° to 60°. 
^ hirsutum (Sw.) An extremely delicate little fern, with narrow, 
twice divided, transparent fronds, 3 to 9 inches long, clothed 
with soft white or tawny hairs. Pendent from the trunks of 
trees in the West Indies. Yery humid, but airy, and no 
water on the fronds. 50° to 70°. 
X hirtellum (Sw.) A delicate and pretty species, with broad 
attenuated, rather open, thrice divided ( tri-pinnatifid ) pale 
green drooping fronds, 6 to 12 inches long, everywhere 
clothed with soft white, or tawny hairs. Stalks erect, 
round. Jamaica. 50° to 70°. 
interruptum (Kunze.) A very fine species with twice divided 
fbi-pinnatifid J narrow fronds, 1 to 3 feet long, densely 
clothed with soft tawny hairs. A frond on one of our wild 
specimens measures 3 feet 5 inches in length, and about 2 \ 
inches in breadth ! West Indies . 50° to 70°. 
Javanicum (Spreng.) Nearly allied to U. crispatum and 
U. fiexuosum , but with shorter, broader and more finely 
divided, extremely crisped fronds. Mountains of Java. 
50° to 65°. 
Magellanicum (Willd.) H. attenuatum (Hook.) This fine 
species is found on trees and rocks in Southern Chili, and in 
the Island of Chiloe. Its erect fronds are 6 to 10 inches long 
and of a pale and rather dull green ; broadly ovate or at- 
tenuated; ( tri-pinnatifid, ) toothed and hairy at the margin. 
40° to 60°. 
