Sterile (querciform) fronds, from tw'o to three inches long,
cordate-ovate, oblong, deeply pinnatifid, with b lu n t oblong lobes.
F ro n d s pinnate, about two feet long, (in our specimens of the
cultivated p lant,) oblong. Pinnæ alternate, distant, sessile, linear-
lanceolate, cuneate at the base, acuminate at the apex, crenato-
serrate, articulated with the brownish ternate rachis, the terminal
pinnæ similar to the rest, from five to seven inches long, and
about th re e eighths of an inch wide, palish g reen, the veins
prominent beneath.
Sori uniserial, on each side the costa, seated in a depression,
which forms a wart-like elevation on the up p e r surface, round,
placed singly between the prima ry veins, a short distance from
th e costa.
T h e cultivated plants have been obtained from an importation
b y th e Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, from Jav a , about 1860.
My thanks are due to Air. Sim, of F o o t’s Cray, and to Mr.
P a rk e r, of Holloway, for plan ts; and to Mr. H en derson, of
AVentworth, for barren and fertile fronds.
I t is in the Catalogues of Alessrs. E . G. H en d e rso n , of St.
J o h n ’s AVood; P a rk e r, of Holloway; Booth and Son, of H am b
u rg ; Sim, of Foot’s Cray; Rollisson, of T ooting; A. Henderson,
of P ine-apple P lace; and Veitch, Ju n ., of Chelsea.
T h e illustration is from a frond sent hy Mr. H en derson, of
AA'"entworth.