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42 OLEANDRA NERIIFORMIS.
Fronds simple, lanceolate, exceedingly membranous, u ndulated;
margin entire, round, or somewhat attenuated at the base.
The fronds, which are twelve inches in length, recline, and
are verticillate or sub-verticillate, and being articulated with a
frutescent scandent rhizoma.
Ehizoma covered with brown scales.
Colour of the frond vivid pale green.
Sori unise rial; costal, crowded. Indusium reniform.
Commonly known as the Oleandra hirtella.
F o r a plan t of this species my obligations are due to M.
Schott, Director of the Imperial Gardens of Schonbriinn; and
for fronds to Sir W. J . Hooker, Royal Gardens, K ew ; Mr.
Sim, of Foot’s Cray; and to Mr. Joseph Henderson, of Wentworth.
I t may be procured of Messrs. Veitch, of Chelsea; Sim, of
F o o t’s Cray; Eollisson, of Tooting; A. Henderson, of Pine-apple
Pla c e ; E . G. Henderson, of St. Jo h n ’s Wo o d ; and Booth, of
Hamburg.
The illustration is from Sir William Hooker’s frond.