The length of the frond from four to eight feet; the colour
b rig h t green; habit pendulous.
Rachis and stipes pubescent, brown, articulated with a creeping
rhizoma; rhizoma scaly.
Sori uniserial, of a yellowish brown colour, each furnished
with many laoiniated scales, which are soon hid d en by the
swelling of the sori. The sori are immersed in the frond, and
form raised protuberances on the up p e r surface.
Air. Aloore, in his “ Genera and Species of Cultivated F e rn s,”
mentions the magnificent plan t of this species which is in the
Kew collection, and when described by Air. Aloore, it had
nearly twenty developed fronds, a portion of which were eight
feet long, and having fifty-eight pairs of pinnules, with a stipes
not more than eight inches long.
Best known as the Gonioplilehium subauriculatum.
I am indebted to Alessrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, for a plant
of this species; and to Air. Henderson, of AYentworth; Air.
Ing ram, of the Royal Gardens, AYindsor; and to Air. Norman,
of H u ll, for fronds.
I t is in the Catalogue of Alessrs. Rollisson, of Tooting.
The illustration is from a frond sent by Air. Norman, of
Hull.