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A warm greenliouse or stove Fern.
Native of the south of Africa—Cape of Good Hope.
Fronds triangular in form, spreading, erect in habit, stout,
dull green, tripinnate; pinnules pinnatifid and slightly recurved.
Stipes and rachis everywhere hirsute, with broad dark scales
scattered here and there, darker and larger near the base.
Stipes very stout.
Ehizoma densely scaly, and creeping.
Sori copious, occupying the whole frond, smaller than in
A . capcnse.
Length of frond thirty-six inches; width at base about twenty
inches. Stipes sixteen inches in length.
For a plant and fronds of this Fern I am indehted to (Mr.
E . Sim, of Foot’s Cray.
I t may be procured of Mr. R. Sim.
The illustration is from a plant in my own collection.
