different in habit and character, that M. Fée throws the name 
aside altogether, and adopts Link’s Ped/ea for the mass of /lo- 
sorus of Presl. Our present plant is a native of the Cape of 
Good Hope, in mountainous districts, growing in rocky places, 
at elevations above the level of the sea varying from 500 to 
4000 feet, according to Drege. It is an elegant and graceful 
Fern, with fronds of a delicate bright green, and glossy ebeneous 
stipites and rachises. It requires protection from the frost, and 
flourishes in a cool greenhouse, with a northern aspect. 
Duscr. Roots tufted. Stipites several from one point, two, 
four, or five inches long, ascending or erect, the base woolly, 
with copious, curly, paleaceous scales; the rest black, ebeneous, 
as are all the rachises, and slender. Fronds bipinnated (rarely 
simply pinnated, with three or five pinnules), triangular-oblong, 
subcoriaceous, bright clear green; primary pinne distant ; pin- 
aules subapproximate, often imbricating, rather large, triangulari- 
cordate, very obtuse, sometimes approaching to hastate or three- 
lobed, and sometimes sinuated, all with a deep sinus at the base, 
and petiolulated: veins all radiating from the sinus, numerous, 
two or three times dichotomous ; sor? narrow, continuous roun d 
the margin. Jnvolucre entire, pale, membranaceous. 
Fig. 1. Fertile pinnule, seen from beneath :—magnified. 2. Portion of a 
sorus :—more magnified, 
