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eiiougli to pronounce it beautiful, and certainly no one can
help admiring this delicate-looking species.
A n evergreen warm greenhouse species.
A native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Mr. Henderson
in 1843. ’
^ Ih o fronds are glabrous, deltoid, glaucous, hipinnate, the
pinnules deltoid coriaceous, cordate at the base, sub-trilobate,
with a narrow cartilaginous margin.
Stipes covered with scales ne a r the base, ebeneous, termina l,
attached to a creeping short rhizoma.
L en g th of frond twelve inches; colour bluish green.
Sori continuous ro u n d every fertile pinnule. In d u sium very
narrow.
I am in d eb ted to Messrs. Booth, of H am b u rg , for a plan t
of this species; and to Mr. H en derson, of W en tw o rth , and to
Mr. Norman, of H u ll, for fronds.
I t IS in th e F e rn Catalogues of Messrs. P a rk e r, of Ho lloway;
Sim, of F o o t’s C ray ; Osborn, of F u lh am ; K en n ed y of Covent
G a rd en ; V e itch , of Chelsea; and Booth, of Hamburg.
T h e illu stra tio n is from a frond forwarded by Mr. Norman
of H u ll. ’
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