I n t h e S e c t i o n L a s t r e a o e A u t h o r s .
T h i s handsome rare F e rn is only to be found in the best
collections.
Intro d u c ed into the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Dr. Gardner,
about the year 1846.
An evergreen stove species.
Native of Ceylon and the P h ilippine Islands.
The fronds are deltoid, glandiilose, densely pubescent,
tripinnate, and somewhat erect in h ab it; the pinnules oblong-
linear and acute, the base decurrent, profoundly pinnatifid,
having b rie f dentate segments.
Stipes scaly at the base.
Fronds lateral, being adherent to a creeping rhizoma.
Sori sub-marginal. Indusium frequently peltate.
L en g th from eighteen to twenty-four inches; colour pale
green.
Fo r fronds my obligations are due to Mr. Thomas Moore,
of Chelsea, and to Air. Joseph Henderson, of Wentworth.
I t does not appear to be in any of the N urserymen’s
Catalogues.
The illustration is from a frond sent by Mr. Moore, of
Chelsea.
