rinna of mature Frond— unclei- side. 



ASPLENIUM BROWNII. 



J. Smith. Moore and Houston. Hooker. 



PLATE XL. VOL. V. 



Allan todia Australis, 

 Atliyrium, Australe, 



E. Beown. Kunze. 

 Peesl. Hookee. Fee. 



Asjplenium — Spleenwort. Brownii — After Mr. E.. Brown; a well-known 



English botanist. 



In the Section Allantodia of Authors. 



A handsome large-growing species, well adapted for an 

 exhibition plant, and easily cultivated. 



Introduced into England in the year 1820, and into the 

 Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. A. Cunningham, in 1824. 



An evergreen greenhouse Fern. 



Native of New Holland and Tasmania, (Van Dieman's Land.) 



The fronds, which are glabrous, are ovate-lanceolate in form, 

 and subtripinnate ; habit somewhat pendulous. Pinnae lanceolate, 

 pinnules oblong-acuminate, and the segments almost ovate, and 

 largest nearest to the rachis. Margin dentate. 



Stipes scaly. Fronds terminal. 



Rhizoma thick and creeping. 



Sori oblong, short, and crowded together, covering the whole 



