74 ASPIDIUM PUBESCENS. 



into a splendid specimen, and requiring no particular care in 

 its cultivation. 



Native of Jamaica. 



Fronds deltoid, pubescent, sub-tripinnate; pinnules oblong- 

 linear; segments sharply toothed, largest on the superior side. 



Stipes covered with scales of a brown colour, being most 

 crowded near the base; lateral, adherent to a slender, creeping, 

 scaly rhizoma. 



Sori medial, at first very pale straw-coloured. 



Length twelve inches. 



For plants I am indebted to Messrs. Booth and Son, of 

 Hamburg. 



It is in the Catalogues of Messrs. Sim, of Foot's Cray; 

 Veitch, of Chelsea; Rollisson, of Tooting; Masters, of Canter- 

 bury; Booth and Son, of Hamburg; Stansfield, of Todmorden; 

 and Cooling, of Derby. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



