8 ASPLENIUM EBENEUM. 



heat beyond that of a cool greenhouse, a shady situation, not 

 too much moisture, and to be kept free from insects. 



The fronds are glabrous, linear-lanceolate, pinnate; the pinnge 

 being sub-sessile, imbricated and oblong, the superior ones 

 auriculate, rounded at the apex, and bluntly crenate on the 

 edge, the inferior ones being cordate-hastate. 



The colour of the pinnae is a delicate green, the rachis and 

 stipes being ebeneous, polished, and pubescent. Terminal, being 

 attached to a tufted rhizoma. 



The length of the frond is usually about twelve inches. 



This is an evergreen greenhouse Fern. 



Asplenium cheneuni is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 Mexico, and North America. 



A well-known and widely-cultivated species. It is in the 

 Catalogues of Mr. Sim, of the Foot's Cray Nursery; Messrs. 

 A. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place; Pollisson, of Tooting; 

 Masters, of Canterbury; Backhouse, of York; Parker, of the 

 Paradise Nursery, Hollo way; Mr. E. Cooling, of Derby; and 

 Messrs. Booth, of Hamburg. 



Plants have been forwarded by Mr. Henderson, of Wentworth ; 

 and by Mr. Masters, of the Exotic Nursery, Canterbury. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



