Portion of pinna of fertile Frond— under side. 



DICKSONIA RUBIGINOSA. 



Kaulfuss. Kunze. Hooker. Link. Presl. 

 Fee. Liebmann. Schott. 



PLATE XLV. VOL. VIII. 



Sitolobium rubiginosum, J. Smith. • Moore and Houlston. 



Dicksonia — Named after James Dickson, a British botanist. 

 Rubiginosa — Rusty. 



In the Section Sitolobium of Authors. 



A STRAGGLiNG-growing species. 



An evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of Tropical America, Brazil, (Rio Janeiro, Tejuca, 

 and Bahia,) Mexico, (temperate regions of,) Columbia, Peru, 

 Guatemala, and Jamaica. 



Raised in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1841. 



The fronds, which are spreading and membranaceous, are 

 hairy, triangularly elongate in form, and tripinnate; pinnae 

 oblong-obtuse, very hairy beneath; pinnules oblong-acuminate; 

 segments pinnatifid, rounded at the apex, and largest on the 



