Pinna of mature Frond — under side. 



PTEEIS LATA. 



Link. J. Smith. Moore and Houlston. Kunze. 



PLATE VI. VOL. IV. 



Pteris Jlabellata var., 



Pteris — Brake. 



J. Ag. 

 Lata — Broad. 



A HANDSOME evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of Brazil. 



Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, from the Royal 

 Berlin Gardens, in the year 1841. 



Fronds glabrous, deltoid, and three-branched. Branches 

 drooping and pinnate; pinnse linear-lanceolate, profoundly 

 pinnatifid, and petiolulate or decurrent at the inferior base. 

 Apex caudate and entire; segments linear-acuminate; apex 

 spinuoso-serrate and repand. Upper side of the costa spinulose. 



Bhizoma creeping. 



Sori linear. 



Length of frond from thirty to thirty -five inches; colour bright 

 green. 



