Portion of Pinna of mature Frond — under side. 



HEMIDICTYUM MARGINATUM. 



Presl. Hooker and Bauer. J. Smith. 



PLATE LIII. VOL V. 



Hemidictyon marginatum, Fee. 



Asplenium mat^ginaUim, Linn^us. 



" Mikani. Peesl. 



Plumiee. Leibmann. Schott. 



Hemidictyum — A half-net. 



Marginatum — Margined. 



An exceedingly beautiful, rare, and noble-looking species, 

 attaining a large size, and very dissimilar in general appearance 

 to the genus Asplenium, although in some respects closely allied. 



An evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of Tropical America, Mexico, and the West Indies. 



Leibmann remarks that it occurs in the warm temperate 

 forests of Myrtles, Terebinthaceae, and Laurinese, between Joc- 

 otepec and S. Pedro Tepinapa, in Chinantla, in the Depart- 

 ment of Oajaca, at an altitude of from three thousand to three 

 thousand five hundred feet. 



