Pinna of matui-e Frond — under side. 



CHEILANTHES LENDIGERA. 



SwARTz. Hooker. 



PLATE XXIV. VOL. IV. 



CJieilanthes lentigera, 



" lanuginosa, 



" minor, 



" frigida, 



Pteris lendigera, 

 Myriopteris lendigera, 

 Notholcena lendigera. 



WiLLDENOW. KUNZE. LiNK. 



Peesl. Leibmann. Pee. 



{Not O^MaETENS & G-ALLEOTTI.) 

 Maetens and GtALLEOTTI. 

 Maetens and Galleotti. 

 Of Gtaedens. 

 Cayanilles. 

 Fee. Smith. 

 J. Smith. 



CJieilanthes — From tlie Greek ; a lip, and a Jioiver 

 Lendigera — Maggot-bearing. 



A VERY handsome Fern, easily grown, and making a good 

 exhibition plant. 



An evergreen stove species. 



Native of Mexico, Quito, and New Grenada. 



Leibmann mentions that it grows in cracks of rocks in com- 

 munity. Luis Nee found it at Ixmiquilpan, in Mexico; Schiede 

 also in Malpays de la Hoya; Galleotti on gneis and chrystalline 

 limestone in Misteca alta at Penoles, at an altitude of from 

 six thousand five hundred to eight thousand feet; also in 

 Baranca de Riogrande de Lerma, at an altitude of four thousand 



