Pinna of barren Frond— upper side. 



CHEILANTHES YISCOSA. 



Link. Hooker. Presl. Smith. Moore and Houlston. 

 Lamarck. Fee. Schott. {Not of Carmichael.) 



PLATE XXV. VOL IV. 



Ckeilanthes Kaulfussii, 



KUNZE. 



Cheilanthes — From the Greek; a lip, and a fioiver. 

 Viscosa — Clammy, or viscid. 



A PRETTY species with triangular-shaped fronds. Rare in 

 cultivation. 



An evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of Mexico and Central America. 



Received at the Royal Gardens/ Kew, in 1841, from the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens of Berlin. 



Fronds triangular in form, and tripinnate; pinnules oblong- 

 obtuse and pinnatifid; segments (in the sterile frond) dentate. 

 Fronds terminal, being adherent to a brief creeping rhizoma. 

 The fronds entirely covered with viscid glandulose hairs. 



Stipes and rachis brown and densely hirsute. 



Sori linear and continuous. 

 vol. IV. I 



