128 PTERIS LEPTOPHYLLA. 



Fronds terminal, adherent to a fasciculate rhizoma. 



Sori linear, continuous almost to the apex. 



Length of sterile frond twelve inches; length of fertile frond 

 two feet. 



In a fertile frond fifteen inches in length the stipes was 

 nine inches, and in a barren frond of eight inches, the stipes 

 was five inches. Stipes green on the under side and rounded, 

 flat on the upper, and brownish. Few scattered scales near 

 the base. 



My thanks are due to M. Schott, the Director of the Imperial 

 Gardens of Vienna, and to Messrs. E. G. Henderson, for plants 

 of this species. 



It is in the Fern Catalogues of Messrs. A. Henderson, of 

 Pine-apple Place; E. G. Henderson, of St. John's Wood; Booth, 

 of Hamburg; Kennedy, of Covent Garden; Parker, of Hollo- 

 way; and Stansfield and Son, of Todmorden. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



