S6 CHEILANTHES RADIATA. 



Kanchoen Cabrestros at E-io Nautla, in the Department of Vera 

 Cruz, Columbia, and Peru. 



Cultivated in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1827. 



The fronds are pinnate, digitate, and glabrous; branches 

 linear and radiating. Segments oblong-obtuse, approximate, 

 numerous, petiolate, sub-imbricate, articulated at the base, 

 auriculate, and having a crenate margin. 



Rachis and stipes ebeneous; terminal, and adherent to a 

 fasciculate erect rhizoma. 



Length twelve inches. 



Sori conspicuous, and often crowded. Indusium reniform. 



Veins forked; venules direct; apices free and sporangiferous. 



For fronds my thanks are due to Mr. E,. Sim, of Foot's Cray. 



This species may be procured of Messrs. Sim, of Foot's 

 Cray; E. G. Henderson, of St. John's Wood; and Kennedy, 

 of Covent Garden. 



The illustration is from Mr. Sim's frond. 



