Povtion o f b a rre n Froml.
PTERIS KINGIANA.
E . n d l i c i i e r . M o o r e a n d H o u l s t o n . F e e . . I a c q l i n .
J. S m i t h . K u n z e . P k e s l .
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P ie r is—13rake. Ki iKjiana — I v i 11 g ’ s.
A T .A K O E , noble-looking, vigorous-growing, spreading, and
somewhat pcndulous-habited F e rn , req u irin g abundance of pot-
room and a strong soil to su p p o rt its thick fleshy-feeling
fronds.
An evergreen greenhouse species.
F rom Norfo lk Island.
In tro d u c ed into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the )-car 1831,
by Air. Allan Cunningham.
Fro n d s glabrous, su b-bipinnate; pinnæ linear-lanccolatc and
drooping, lowest pair bip a rtite and petiolulate, segments linear-
acuminate, rep an d , serrate margin, costa spinulose on the upper
side; late ra l, or terminal, attached to a short creeping rhizoma.
Stipes twenty inches in length, circular, scaly near the base;
vivid green in colour, except near the base, Yvhere brownish.
Sori continuous, commencing at th e base, y e t not extending