Portion of fertile Frond — under side. 



TRICHOMANES BANCftOFTII. 



Hooker and Greville. 



PLATE IX. 



C VOL. VI IT. 



Trichoma n es coriaceum , 



KuNZE. 



Trichomancs — From the Greek — Soft hair. Bancroftn — Named after 



Bancroft, a Jamaica physician and botanist. 



A rare dwarf species, with wavy crispy-looking pellucid 

 fronds, radiating from a small crown. 



An evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of Jamaica, St. Vincent, Surinam, Peru, Brazil, and 

 British Guiana. 



Fronds ovate, occasionally subdeltoid, deeply pinnatifid, some- 

 times bi-tripinnatifid, tufted, rigid, glabrous, or nearly so, seg- 

 ments approximate, oblong in form, usually entire, occasionally 

 sinuato-pinnatifid, or profoundly pinnatifid. 



Stipes and rachis winged, with a very broad wing extending 

 almost to the base of the stipes. 



Involucres entirely sunk in the apices of the ultimate seg- 

 ments, cuneato-cylindrical in form, the mouth spreading. 



Caudex short and creeping. 



Length of frond from one to six inches. Colour deep green. 

 Width one inch. 



My thanks are due to Mr. Sim, of Foot's Cray, for fronds. 



It may be procured of Mr. Sim. 



The illustration is from Mr. Sim's frond. 



