Portion of barren Frond. 



PTERIS CRENATA. 



Swartz. Moore and Houlston. J. Smith. Fee. Burmann. 



HOUTTUYN. KlJNZE. SCHOTT, M. S. 



PLATE XLVIII. VOL. III. 



Pteris chinensis, 

 " attenuata, 

 " chilensis, 



Phorolobus chinensis, 



Loudon, and of English Gaedens. 



Blume. 



Hokt. 



Desvaux. 



Pteris — Erake. 



Crenata — Notched. 



Pteris crenata is not a common species in our English 

 gardens, although easily managed with the ordinary care of 

 hot-house plants. 



An evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of the East Indies, China, Java, New Holland, 

 and the Philippine Islands. 



Cultivated at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1822. 



Fronds glabrous, bipinnate. Sterile frond having the pinnules 

 oblong-ovate in form, margin crenato-scrrate, decurrent at the 

 inferior base. Fertile frond erect, pinnules linear-acuminate, 

 narrow, sub-petiolate, and decurrent at the inferior base. 



Fronds lateral, adherent to a short creeping rhizoma. 



