Pinna of barren Frond upper side. 



DEPAPJA PROLIFERA. 



Hooker and Greville. Fee. Hooker and Bauer, 



PLATE XXXVIII. VOL. VIII. 



Df'cksonia prolifera, 

 Deparia Macraei, 



Kaulfuss. 



hookek and greeville. 



Deparia — From the Greek — a little cup. 



Prolifera — Proliferous . 



A pretty and distinct species, worthy of general cultivation, 

 but as yet very rare. 



An evergreen stove species. 



Native of the Sandwich Islands, Oahu, according to Chamisso, 

 and Owhyhee, according to Macrae. 



Fronds spreading, triangular-elongate, herbaceous, pinnato- 

 pinnatifid, and glabrous, the divisions profoundly cut into 

 rounded lobes. Pinnae sub-opposite below, alternate above, 

 elongated, oblong-acuminate; segments distant, pinnules about 

 twenty pair on each pinna. 



Veins simple, from a central costa; venules free, extending 

 to the margin, and in the fertile fronds forming stalks to the 

 sori. 



