Portion of barren Frond. 



BLECHNUM HASTATUM. 



Kaulfuss. J. Smith. Moore and Houlston. Pkesl. 

 Fee. Schott. Link. 



PLATE XXXIII. B. VOL. IV. 



BlecJmum trilohum, Peesl. Hookee and GtEEVILLE. 



Lomaria hastata, Xunze. 



Toenitis sagittifera, Boey. 



Blechnum — From Blechnon, the Grreek name for a Fern. 

 Sastatum — Halbert-shaped. 



An evergreen stove species. 



Native of Chili. 



E-eceived into the Royal Gardens, Kew, from the E-oyal 

 Botanic Gardens of Berlin, in the year 1841. 



Fronds glabrous, lanceolate in shape, and pinnate; the pinnae 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, petiolulate, and falcate, inferior pinnae 

 hastate, superior sessile, and auriculate at the base. 



Veins forked. 



Stipes at the base scaly. 



Fronds terminal, being adherent to a creeping rhizoma. 



Sori linear, medial, continuous or interrupted; margin of the 

 indusium fringed. 



Length from twelve to eighteen inches; colour pale green. 



