14 PTERIS MACROPTERA. 



Rhizoma upright, or slightly creeping, and covered with 

 brown scales. 



Stipes and rachis destitute of scales. 



Usual length of frond twenty-four inches, of which the 

 lower ten inches are naked. Usual breadth eighteen inches; 

 colour a heavy green. 



The fronds are stout in substance, and more or less erect 

 in habit. 



For a plant of this species I am indebted to Mr. Stewart, 

 Curator of the Cambridge Botanic Gardens, and for fronds to 

 M. Schott, of the Imperial Gardens, of Schonbriinn, near 

 Vienna. 



It does not appear to be in any of the Fern Catalogues. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



