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T. Filicula (Bory.) A creeping species from the Mauritius, with 
erect, open, rather firm, dark-green, smooth, twice divided 
(bi-pinnatijid) fronds, on winged stalks. 50° to 65°. 
* fimbriatum (Backh.) T. superbum (Yan Den Bosch.) A very 
fine species from Trinidad , closely allied to T. alatum, hut 
much more robust, and with triangular fronds, of which 
the pinnules are frequently torn into almost thread-like 
fringes. Stem very broadly winged. 55° to 70°. (Our 
T. superbum from Borneo , is a totally different plant. Its 
fronds are 1 1 to 2 b feet high and a foot or more wide ! with 
winged stalks two-thirds of an inch across !) 
floribundum (Hook.) A noble and most lovely fern from the 
West Indies, forming tufts 1| to 2 feet high, and 8 to 10 
inches broad, of exquisitely transparent, pale-green, once 
divided ( pinnate ) fronds, beautifully fringed with hair-like 
receptacles, and attenuated and rooting at the extremity. 
Stalks round, erect, and hairy when young. 60° to 80°. 
humile (Forster.) A small species from New Zealand forming 
dense mats of dark-green twice divided fronds. 
Kaulfussii (Hook.) An erect and handsome species, 9 to 18 
inches high, from the West Indies, with narrow, rather hairy, 
dull green, once or twice divided ( sub-bipinnatijid ) fronds, on 
broadly winged hairy stalks. 60° to 75°. 
longisetum (Bory.) A most beautiful species from Borneo , 
and Java, with erect, rigid, highly divided, open fronds, 
6 to 1 2 inches high, with hair-like pinnules, and wiry stalks. 
55 ° to 70°. 
