Portion of mature Frond— under side. 



CHEILANTHES FEAGRANS. 



Webb and Berthelot. Hooker. {Not of Swartz.) 



KuNZE. J. Smith. 



PLATE XVII. B. VOL. IV. 



IP oly podium fragrans, 

 Pteris acrosticha, 



" fragrans, 

 Adiantum fragrans, 

 CheilantJies odora, 



suaveolens, 

 Maderensis, 



LiNN^us. Desfontaines. 



Balbis. 



Lag. 



YlVIANI. 



swaetz. schkuhe. link. 



mooee and houlston. 



Peesl. Fee. 



swaetz. schkuhe. sibthoep. 



Lowe. 



Cheilanthes — From the Greek; a lip, and a flower. Fragrans — Fragrant. 



An interesting dwarf species. 



An evergreen greenhouse Fern. - 



Native of the South of Europe, Madeira, the whole of the 

 Mediterranean Islands, and Affghanistan. 



Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1778. 



Fronds glabrous, ovate-lanceolate, and bipinnate; the pinnae 

 oblong-obtuse; the basal ones remote and pinnatifid. 



Rachis and stipes having narrow scales. 



Sori confluent. 



