16 ADIANTUM CUNEATUM. 



that wherever it is grown a stock of young plants are soon 

 obtained, even when no care is taken to rear them from spor- 

 ules, for they spring up in the pots which stand around them 



This Fern was received at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 

 in the year 1841, from the Royal Botanic Gardens of Berlin. 



Frond glabrous, triquadripinnate, very slender, membranaceous 

 pinnules upon long slender ebeneous petiolules; pinnules wedge- 

 shaped, the superior margin rounded, obtuse lobes, pinnules 

 numerous, sterile lobes serrulate; fertile lobes emarginate. Stipes 

 and rachis shining, ebeneous, and having a plum-coloured bloom 

 upon them. 



The fronds, which are more or less erect, are attached to a 

 somewhat tufted rhizoma. They are usually about twelve inches 

 in length. One of my plants has fronds eighteen inches long. 



Sori of a moderate size, from four to six on a pinnule; 

 indusium reniform. 



A. cuneatum is an evergreen stove species. 



An inhabitant of Brazil, having been found at St. Catharine's, 

 on the Organ Mountains, near Bio, and at Uraguay. 



My thanks are due to Mr. Ingram, of Belvoir Castle; Mr. 

 Ingram, of the Royal Gardens of Windsor; Messrs. Rollisson, 

 of Tooting; Messrs. Booth, of Hamburg; and to Mr. Stewart, 

 of Sudbury Castle, for plants of this species; and to Mr. Hen- 

 derson, of Wentworth, for fructified fronds. 



The young fronds, when they first come up are pink, when 

 they first expand are of a pale green, and afterwards become 

 a rich green colour. The frond is naked for two-thirds of its 

 length, and is somewhat wedge-shaped. 



It is in the Fern Catalogues of Messrs. E. G. Henderson, of 

 St. John's Wood; A. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place; R. Sim, 

 of Foot's Cray; Veitch, of Exeter; Parker, of Hollo way; 

 Rollisson, of Tooting; Booth and Son, of Hamburg; and E. 

 Cooling, of Derby. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



