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CHEILANTHES SPECTABILIS. ^ 



Kaulfuss. J. Smith. Moore and Houlston. 



PLATE XV. VOL. IV. 



Ckeilanthes Brasiliensis, 

 " cJilorophylla, 



Sypolepis spectahilu, 



" coniifolia, 



Adiantopsis spectahilis, 

 Aspidium coniifolium. 



Haddi. 



swaetz. kunze. 



Pbesl. Hooker. Link. 



Peesl. 



Fee. 



Peesl. 



Ckeilanthes — From the Greek; a Up, and a Jlower. Spectahilis — Showy. 



A SLENDER, tall, upright, straggling-growing Fern, of easy 

 cultivation. 



An evergreen stove species. 



Native of Brazil, Organ Mountains, Rio Pernambuco, and 

 Rio Grande. 



Introduced into England in 1829, and received from the 

 Royal Berlin Gardens into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1841. 



Fronds glabrous, tripinnate, with linear-acuminate pinnae, 

 oblong-linear pinnules, and oblong-obtuse segments; somewhat 

 crenate, adnate, and decurrent. Fronds terminal, and adherent 

 to an erect fasciculate rhizoma. 



Pinnae sub-opposite below, alternate above; remote below, 

 approximate above, and crowded near the apex. 



Stipes and rachis ebeneous, and hairy near the base. 



