Pinna of mature Frond— under side. 



CHEILANTHES TENUIFOLIA. 



SwARTz. Hooker. R. Brown. Schkuhr. 

 WiLLDENOw. Smith. Kaulfuss. Kunze. Presl, 

 {Not of Sieber or Link.) 



Fee. 



PLATE XIX. VOL. IV. 



Clieilanthes rupestris, 

 " micrantha, 



Aspidium tenue, 

 Pteris JiumiUs, 



" nigra, 

 TricJiomanes tenuifolia, 

 Dryopteris campestris, 

 Adiantum cicutcefolium, 

 Acrostic/mm tenue, 



Wallich. 

 Wallich. 

 Hetzius. 



FOESTEE. 

 E.ETZIUS. 

 BUEMANN. 

 RUMPH. 



Enc. Bot. 

 Eetzius. 



Clieilanthes — From tlie Greek; a lip, and a Jloiver. 

 Tenuifolia — Slender-leaved. 



A PRETTY tender species, not commonly seen in collections. 

 A deciduous greenhouse Fern. 



Introduced into the E-oyal Gardens, Kew, in 1824. 

 Native of New Holland, East Indies, Ceylon, Java, Malacca, 

 Assam, Penang, Philippine Islands, China, and New Zealand. 

 Fronds more or less ovate and tripinnate; pinnules linear- 



