Porton of mature Frond— under side. 



ONYCHIUM LUCIDUM. 



Sprengel. Moore and Houlston. J. Smith. Hooker. 



Kunze. Fee. 



PLATE XXIII. VOL. III. 



Lcptodegia lucida, 

 Cheilanthes lucida, 

 Onychium Japonic urn, 



D. Don. 



Wallich. 

 Of Gardens. 



Onychium — A claw. 



Lucidum — Shining;. 



A beautiful, slender-looking, yet vigorous-growing Fern, 

 requiring as little management as possible, and producing a 

 large and handsome plant, if afforded abundant pot-room. 



Easily propagated, both by divisions of the creeping rhizoma 

 and from spores, young plants coming up in all the pots in 

 its neighbourhood. 



An evergreen warm greenhouse or stove species. 



A native of the East Indies and Nepal. 



Received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1844, 

 from Mr. H. Lowe. 



The fertile fronds are glabrous, slender, with remote pinna?, 

 the pinnules triangular in form; segments small, linear-acuminate, 



