Portion of mature Frond— under side. 



HEMITELIA GRANDIFOLIA. 



Sprengel. Hooker. J. Smith. Moore and Houlston, 



PLATE LIX. VOL. VIII. 



Cyathea grandifolia, 



horrida, 

 Cnemidaria Kohautiana, 



WlLLDENOW. PLUMIEE. 



SlEBEE, (Not Of PEESL & SMITH.) 



Peesl. 



Hemitelia — Half-perfect, in reference to the indusium resembling a half-cup. 



Grandifolia — Large-leaved. 



This is a very beautiful Fern, but rare in collections. 



An evergreen stove species. 



Native of Trinidad, Jamaica, Martinique, and St. Vincent. 



Caudex erect, growing to the height of four or five feet. 



Fronds pinnate, glabrous, and ovate-lanceolate in form; pinnae 

 large, (twelve inches in length,) lanceolate-acuminate, sessile, and 

 pinnatifid for above two-thirds of its length; segments obtuse 

 and sub-falcate, apex serrulated. 



Fronds terminal. 



Veins once or twice forked, the basal ones angularly-anasto- 

 mosing. 



Stipes aculeated, having a scale on each prickle. 



Sori a little within the margin, uniserial, continued around 

 every sinuosity of the pinnae, and having a solitary sorus on 

 each venule. 



