40 CHEILANTHES MICROMERA. 



Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1844, 

 having been received from Mr. Henderson, and being previously 

 introduced into Engird in 1822. 



Fronds lanceolate-acuminate and bipinnate; pinnse linear- 

 acuminate and alternate; the segments obovate, and in the 

 sterile ones crenate; fertile segments concave. Stipes, rachis, 

 and midrib of pinnse ebeneous, and clothed with small brown 

 scales. 



Sori continuous and confluent; indusium small. 



Terminal, adherent to a short creeping rhizoma. 



Length of frond from ten to eighteen inches; colour deep 

 green. 



My thanks are due to Mr. Joseph Henderson, of Wentworth, 

 for a plant and fronds of this species; and to M. Schott, of 

 the Royal Botanic Gardens of Schonbriinn, and Mr. G. Norman, 

 of Hull, for other fronds. 



It may be procured of Messrs. E. G. Henderson, of St. 

 John's Wood; Veitch, of Chelsea; Rollisson, of Tooting; Sim, 

 of Foot's Cray; A. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place; Booth, of 

 Hamburg; Stansfield, of Todmorden; Kennedy, of Covent 

 Garden; and Cooling, of Derby. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



