108 ASPIDIUM CAPENSE. 



and not unfrequently found in our English collections under 

 the name of Polystichum coriaceuin, yet very different from the 

 species figured on Plate XXXVI., and which appears to be 

 the true plant of Willdenow. 



An evergreen stove species. 



Native of the Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, Jamaica, 

 Brazil, Chili, New Holland, and New Zealand. 



Fronds glabrous, deltoid, tripinnate; pinnules oblong-lanceo- 

 late-acute, pinnatifid, wedge-shaped at the base, and have obtuse 

 dentate segments. 



Fronds lateral, adherent to a decumbent, stout, densely scaly, 

 coespitose rhizoma. 



Length of frond from thirty to forty inches ; colour deep green. 



Sori large. Indusium reniform. 



Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 18^3, by Mr. 

 J. Bowie. 



My thanks are due to Captain Legard, of Kirby Misperton, 

 Yorkshire, and to Mrs. Delves, of Tunbridge Wells, for plants 

 of this species. 



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

 Henderson, of St. John's Wood; E-oUisson, of Tooting; A. 

 Henderson, of Pine-apple Place; Yeitch, Jun., of Chelsea; 

 Cooling, of Derby; Booth and Son, of Hamburg; Masters, of 

 Canterbury; Kennedy, of Covent Garden; and Stansfield, of 

 Todmorden. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



