. 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 amd numerous wood engravings. Identification; Ferns. ANTROPHYUM. 407 A. niphoboloides—niph-ob'-ol-o-i'-des (Mphobolus-like), Hooker. This singular, stove Fern, native of Northern India, the Philippines, and the Malaccas, though described under that name by Hooker in his " Species Filicum," vol. v., p. 94, is synonymous with Niphobolus floccigerum of Mettenius, equa
. 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 amd numerous wood engravings. Identification; Ferns. ANTROPHYUM. 407 A. niphoboloides—niph-ob'-ol-o-i'-des (Mphobolus-like), Hooker. This singular, stove Fern, native of Northern India, the Philippines, and the Malaccas, though described under that name by Hooker in his " Species Filicum," vol. v., p. 94, is synonymous with Niphobolus floccigerum of Mettenius, equally described in the same volume at page 45.—Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 351. A. obtusum—ob-tu'-sum (blunt). Synonymous with A. Boryanum. A. parvulum—par'-vul-urn (rather small). A variety of A. plantagineum. A. plantagineum—plan-ta-gin'-e-um (resembling Plantago or Rib Grass), Kaulfuss. This stove species, with which A. Lessonii is identical, has a wider range of habitat than most others, as it is found in Ceylon, the Himalayas, and Malay, also in the Philippine and Polynesian Islands. Its fronds, Gin. to 9in. long and ljin. to 2in. broad, are of a thick and coriaceous (leathery) texture, broadest one-third of the way down, and while their extremity is sharply pointed, their lower part is gradu- ally narrowed into a stem lin. to 4in. long. There is no midrib apparent, and the areola?, though sometimes 3in. long, are only |in. broad. The copious sori (spore masses) are deeply immersed (em- bedded) in the texture of the fronds, and are frequently uniting. See Fig. 56 (reduced from Col. Beddome's " Ferns of Southern India," by the kind permission of the author).—Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 170, Beddome, Ferns of Southern India, t. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original
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