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fronds unequally wedge-shaped at the base. The edge of the
fertile fronds is contracted, being reflexed where the sori are
situated. The colour of the frond b rig h t green.
Its hab it is rath e r erect, the fronds attached to a creeping
rhizoma.
T he stipes and young frond are of a delicate pale shining
green, mingled with patches of a red colour. W h e n mature,
the stipes becomes black and ebeneous. Rachis slightly fusco-
puhescent.
L en g th of frond from twelve to eighteen inches.
Sori linear and continuous.
T his is a very beautiful evergreen stove Fern .
A native of the W e s t Ind ie s and Tropical America, Mexico,
and Jamaica.
A lth o u g h not common in general cultivation, it is in many
N u rse rym en ’s Catalogues. I t is in those of Messrs. Rollisson,
of T ooting; E . G. Henderson, of St. Jo h n ’s AEood; A. H e n d e r son,
of Pine-apple P la c e ; Booth and Son, of H am b u rg ; Veitch,
of E x e te r; Masters, of Cante rb u ry ; Sira, of F o o t’s C ray ; and
P a rk e r, of Holloway.
Plan ts of this species have been k in d ly presen ted b y Mr.
Hen d e rso n , of W en tw o rth ; Messrs. A. H en d e rso n , of Pine-apple
P la c e ; E . G. H en derson, of St. Jo h n ’s W o o d ; and Booth and
Son, of Ham b u rg . F o r fronds I am in d eb ted to Mr. H e n derson,
of W en tw o rth ; Mr. Norman, of H u ll; and to Messrs.
Booth and Son, of Hamburg.
T he illustration is from a frond sent b y Mr. H en derson, of
Wentworth.