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G L E IC H E N IA S E M IV E S T IT A .
L a b il l a r d ie r e . H o o k e r . M o o r e .
PLATE LIV. VOL. V III.
Gleichenia—Named in honour o f Baron P . F. Von Grleiclien, a German
botauist. Semivestita—Half-clotbed.
A h a n d s o m b r a r e s jie c ie s , w i t l i a c lo s e h a b i t , a n d g r o w in g
v e r y e r e c t ; b r a n c h e s s p r e a d i n g . N o t u n l i k e Gleichenia microp
h y lla .
A warm greenhouse species.
N a tiv e of N ew Caledonia and Malacca.
T h e fronds are dichotomous divaricated, th e branches be in g
p ectinate, the pinna; pinnatifid, and th e segments small,
orbicular-ovate, an d slig h tly concave. T h e pinna; tap e rin g
reg u la rly to th e ir p o in ts; the lobes not p ouched beneath.
Veins pinnate.
E achis h av in g a few ste llated hairs.
Branches ferrug in o u s, with a dense pubescence.
Ve in s indistinct.
Sori termina l, of th re e or four exserted deciduous capsules
or spore-casos, situated at the apex of a v einlet, punctiform,
and naked.
T his species grows to th e h e ig h t o f from two to four fe e t;
th e branches b e in g of a v e ry shining deep gre en colour.
F o r fronds my th anks are due to M r. R. Sim, of F o o t’s
Cray.
I t may be p ro cu red of Mr. Sim.
T h e illu stra tio n is from IMr. Sim’s fronds.
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