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A n evergreen stove species, req u irin g abundance of pot-room.
The fronds, which are membranous, glabrous, and of a lig h t
green colour, are in form deltoid, four times p in n a te , the pinnæ
being lanceolate in shape, and the pinnules linear-lanceolate.
The segments are pinnatifid, the lower ones being widely ap a rt;
the veins of the frond pinnately forked.
Sori round and medial.
Stipes covered with scales, being densely covered near the
rhizoma.
L en g th of frond from three to five feet.
My thanks are due to the Curator of the Cambridge Botanic
Gardens, and to Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, for plants of
P . effusum, and to Mr. J. H en derson, for fronds.
I t is in the Catalogues of Messrs. Rollisson, of T ooting; Veitch,
Ju n ., of Chelsea; P a rk e r, of Holloway; Sim, of F o o t’s Cray;
A. H en derson, of Pine-apple P la c e ; K en n ed y , of Coveut
G a rd en ; Masters, of C an te rb u ry ; and Booth, of Hamburg.
The illustration is from a plant in my own collection.
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