Pinna of Barren Frond. 



PTERIS UMBROSA. 



E. Brown. Moore and Houlston. 



Sieber. Fee. J. Smith. Link. Agardh. Kunze. 



Presl, {not of Wallich.) 



PLATE XXXIX. VOL. III. 



Pteris — Brake. 



Umbrosa — Shady. 



Few Ferns are able to vie with the Pteris umbrosa in its 

 elegance of growth. It is a tall, erect-growing, large species, 

 with weeping pinnae. With abundance of pot-room it forms 

 itself into a handsome specimen. 



An" evergreen greenhouse Fern. 



Native of New Holland, New South Wales, and Australia. 



Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1824, 

 by Mr. A. Cunningham. 



Fronds glabrous, bipinnate below, pinnate above. 



In the sterile frond the segments are linear-acuminate, 

 having a serrated margin, and being Recurrent at the inferior 

 base. In the fertile frond the segments are linear, narrow, 

 serrated at the apex, and decurrent at the inferior base; often 

 ten inches long. The barren pinnae only half the width of 

 the fertile pinnae. 



