104 DORYOPTER1S PALMATA. 



Received into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1840, from the 

 Messrs. Loddiges. 



The fronds, which are glabrous, are digitately-palmate, cori- 

 aceous, drooping, segments linear-acuminate, pinnatifid. Stipes 

 near the base squamiferous, terminal, adherent to a short 

 creeping rhizoma. 



Sori linear, continuous; indusium plane. 



Length of frond twelve inches; colour brilliant green. 



For plants of this species I am indebted to Messrs. Veitch, 

 of Exeter; Mr. Masters, of Canterbury; Mr. Ingram, of the 

 Royal Gardens, Windsor; and Messrs. E. G. Henderson, of 

 St. John's Wood; and for fronds to M. Schott, of the Imperial 

 Gardens, Vienna, and to Mr. Moore, of the Chelsea Botanic 

 Gardens. 



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

 John's Wood; Bass and Brown, of Sudbury; Osborn, of Ful- 

 ham; Veitch, of Exeter; Sim, of Foot's Cray; Veitch, Jun., of 

 Chelsea; Masters, of Canterbury; Rollisson, of Tooting; Parker, 

 of Hollo way; Stansfield, of Todmorden; and Kennedy, of 

 Covent Garden. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



