of a deep rich brown-purple colour, with a similar central broad 
line or band to the one just mentioned, but instead of being white 
is of a rich rose-colour. This is the only state in which I have 
myself seen this variety, and such as is here fignred, from a re- 
cent specimen sent to me by Mr. Linden : but this colour under- 
goes a change. It would appear that “the fronds are of a beau- 
tiful red colour, and when fully developed a rich deep-green, with 
attractive silvery markings along the sides of the midribs, which 
are red.” 
The Pteris aspericaulis of Wallich, a name which has been 
given to this in some gardens, is a very trifling var. of P. gua- 
driaurita, with a rough surface to the stipites, a character not 
apparent in any specimens of the coloured varieties, though as 
likely to be found in them as in the ordinary green state of the 
plant. No species can be more variable in size than this, from 
five or six inches to three feet. in length. 
Our Plate represents a small specimen of P. guadriaurita, var. argyrea, and 
a young one of var. tricolor. Fig. 1. A lateral fertile pinna of the green or or- 
state :—all nat. size. 2. Portion of a fertile segment,— magnified. 
My 
