74 PLATYLOMA CALOMELANOS. 



enough to pronounce it beautiful, and certainly no one can 

 help admiring this delicate-looking species. 



An evergreen warm greenhouse species. 



A native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



Received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Mr. Henderson, 

 in 1843. 



The fronds are glabrous, deltoid, glaucous, bipinnate, the 

 pinnules deltoid coriaceous, cordate at the base, sub-trilobate, 

 with a narrow cartilaginous margin. 



Stipes covered with scales near the base, ebeneous, terminal, 

 attached to a creeping short rhizoma. 



Length of frond twelve inches; colour bluish green. 



Sori continuous round every fertile pinnule. Indusium very 

 narrow. 



I am indebted to Messrs. Booth, of Hamburg, for a plant 

 of this species; and to Mr. Henderson, of Wentworth, and to 

 Mr. Norman, of Hull, for fronds. 



It is in the Fern Catalogues of Messrs. Parker, of Holloway; 

 Sim, of Foot's Cray; Osborn, of Fulham; Kennedy, of Covent 

 Garden; Veitch, of Chelsea; and Booth, of Hamburg. 



The illustration is from a frond forwarded by Mr. Norman, 

 of Hull. 



