Portion of mature R:<md— tmder side?. 



ASPLENIUM STEIGILLOSUM. 

 Lowe. 



PLATE XXXVI. VOL. V. 

 Aihyriwrn, strigillosum^ Mooee. 



Aspleniv/m — Spleenwort. 8trigillosum — ? 



In the Section Athyrium of Authors. 



Very little appears to be known regarding the Athyrium 

 strigillosum of Moore; it was raised from spores by Mr. Bain, 

 of the College Garden, Dublin, but from what country it is 

 uncertain; it may turn out to be one of the Indian species, 

 collected by Dr. Wallich. Mr. Moore, of the Chelsea Botanic 

 Gardens, who recognised it as a species new to him, gave it 

 the name of A. strigillosum. 



The fronds, which are glabrous, are bipinnate, narrow 

 lanceolate-acuminate, straight and rigid, springing from an 

 upright caudex. 



Stipes and rachis deeply furrowed above, the former with a 



few membranous scales near the base, the latter more slightly 



channeled on each side, and rounded beneath. Pinnae very 



short, somewhat triangular and pinnatifid at the apex, dark red 



VOL. V. Y 



