64 ONYCHIUM LUCIDUM. 



and very narrow. The sterile fronds are glabrous, slender, 

 somewhat triangular, tri-quadri-pinnate, the pinnules being also 

 triangular; segments long, and the apex dentate. Both fronds 

 are lateral, and adherent to a creeping rhizoma. The sterile 

 fronds are usually a foot in length, and the fertile ones fifteen 

 inches; a plant in my collection has fronds much larger, most 

 of them from two feet to two feet and a half. 



The stipes a foot in length, and bright green in colour. 



Sori linear, continuous, extending along each segment, but 

 neither reaching apex nor base, eventually becoming confluent. 



For plants of this species I am indebted to Messrs. A. 

 Henderson, of Pine-apple Place Nursery, and to Messrs. 

 Rollisson, of Tooting. 



It is in the Fern Catalogues of Messrs. Veitch, Jun., of 

 Chelsea; Masters, of Canterbury; Rollisson, of Tooting; A. 

 Henderson, of Pine-apple Place; Sim, of Foot's Cray; Veitch, 

 of Exeter; Kennedy, of Co vent Garden: and Cooling, of 

 Derby. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



