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6-12 inches long, erect, scaly. Fronds pinnate, 

 lance-shaped, acuminate, 9-18 inches long, 

 4-8 inches broad, pinnae 3-6 inches long, 

 f | inch broad, narrowed gradually to a 

 point from a broad cordate or even auricled 

 base. Kachis and both surfaces naked or 

 slightly hairy. Texture leathery. Veins in- 

 conspicuous. 



Cultivated. 



Distribution : America, common from Mexico 

 and West Indies southward to Chili and 

 South Brazil. 



3. Blcchnum cartilagimum S\v. 



Caudex oblique, densely clothed at the crown 

 with blackish fibrillose scales. Stipes 4-6 

 inches long, scaly and covered with short, hard 

 tubercular excrescences. Fronds 1-2 feet long, 

 6-9 inches broad, pinnate, broadly lance- 

 shaped ; pinnae sessile, dilated and connected 

 at the base, narrowed gradually towards the 

 point ; margin finely toothed. Rachis and 

 both surfaces naked. Texture leathery. Veins 

 fine. Sori in a broad line close to the midrib. 



Cultivated. 



Distribution : Temperate Australia. 



