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into a splendid specimen, and requiring no particular care in
its cultivation.
Native of Jamaica.
Fronds deltoid, pubescent, sub-tripinnate; pinnules oblong-
linear; segments sharply toothed, largest on the superior side.
Stipes covered with scales of a brown colour, being most
crowded near the b.ase; lateral, adherent to a slender, creeping,
scaly rhizoma.
Sori medial, at first very pale straw-coloured.
Length twelve inches.
For plants I am indehted to Messrs. Booth and Son, of
Hamburg.
I t is in the Catalogues of Messrs. Sim, of Foot’s Cray;
Veitch, of Chelsea; Rollisson, of Tooting; Masters, of Canterb
u ry ; Booth and Son, of Hamburg; Stansfield, of Todmorden;
and Cooling, of Derby.
The illustration is from a plant in my own collection.
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