. The book of choice ferns : for the garden, conservatory, and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work . Ferns; Ferns. POLYPODIUM. 127 P. (Phymatodes) dilatatum—Phy-mat-o'-des ; di-la-ta'-tum (enlarged), AYaUich. A strong-growing, greenhouse species, native of Khasya, where, according to Beddome, it is found at elevations varying between 4000ft. and 6000ft. ; also of Malaysia, Moulmein, Samoa, &c. Its fronds
. The book of choice ferns : for the garden, conservatory, and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work . Ferns; Ferns. POLYPODIUM. 127 P. (Phymatodes) dilatatum—Phy-mat-o'-des ; di-la-ta'-tum (enlarged), AYaUich. A strong-growing, greenhouse species, native of Khasya, where, according to Beddome, it is found at elevations varying between 4000ft. and 6000ft. ; also of Malaysia, Moulmein, Samoa, &c. Its fronds, produced from a thick rhizome of a woody nature, and clothed with large, egg-shaped scales of a dull brown colour, are borne on stalks 1ft. long, with a narrow, decurrent wing reaching nearly down to the base. They are IJffc. to 3ft. long, Ift. or more in breadth, cut down nearly to the rachis into sharp-pointed, entire lobes 4in. to Sin. long, of a soft, papery texture, and naked on both sides. The small and abundant sori (spore masses) are scattered irregularly, and frequently become confluent.—//oo^er,. Species Filicum, v., p. 85. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iii., p. 188. Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. 122. P. Dipteris—Dip'-ter-is (Dipteris), Blume. A very handsome and distinct, stove species, of robust habit, native of the ]\Ioluccas, Polynesia, the Fiji Islands, &c. Although, so far as we are aware, this beautiful plant has not been success- fully grown in this country, it has been imported several times, and is well known in the form of dry specimens, under the name of Dipteris Hors- fieldii. Its singular fronds, produced from a slender rhizome of a wiry nature and borne on strong, wiry stalks 3ft. to oft. long, are 1ft. to 3ft. long and much broader, the main lobes reaching three- quarters of the way down and having their edges sharply toothed (Fig. 38 is reduced from Col. Beddome's " Ferns of British India," by the kind permission of t
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