Portion of barren Frond. 



PTERIS KIXGIANA. 



Endlicher. Moore and Houlston. Fee. Jacquin. 

 J. Smith. Kunze. Presl. 



PLATE XLYI. VOL. III. 



Pteris — Brak e . 



Kin gran a — King's . 



A large, noble-looking, vigorous-growing, spreading, and 

 somewhat pendulous-habited Fern, requiring abundance of pot- 

 room and a strong soil to support its thick fleshy-feeling 

 fronds. 



An evergreen greenhouse species. 



From Norfolk Island. 



Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1831, 

 by Mr. Allan Cunningham. 



Fronds glabrous, sub-bipinnate; pinnae linear-lanceolate and 

 drooping, lowest pair bipartite and. petiolulate, segments linear- 

 acuminate, repand, serrate margin, costa spinulose on the upper 

 side; lateral, or terminal, attached to a short creeping rhizoma. 



Stipes twenty inches in length, circular, scaly near the base; 

 vivid green in colour, except near the base, where brownish. 



Sori continuous, commencing at the base, yet not extending 



