Pinna of matiu'e Frond— under side. 



ASPimUM MACROPHYLLUM. 



SwARTz. Plumier. J. Smith. Moore and Houlstox. 



KuNZE. Leibmann. Willdenow. 

 Raddi. Presl. Petiyer. Sprengel. Schott, M.S. 



PLATE XLVI. VOL. VI. 



CardiocJilcena macropJiylla, 

 Bathmium macrophylla, 

 Aspidium hijidurii, 

 Folypodium variolatwm^ 



Fee. 

 Link. 



Peesl. 



"VTlLLDENOW. 



Aspidium — The Shield Fern. 



Macrophyllum — Large-leaved. 



A FINE Fern, pretty generally cultivated in our English 

 collections, yet often confused with Aspidium trifoliatum, Swartz, 

 figured on Plate XXIX of this volume. 



An evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of the "West Indies, Tropical America, and Brazil. 



Fronds glabrous, oblong-ovate in form; pinnate, the pinnae beinfr 

 of an oblong-lanceolate-acuminate shape, somewhat membranous, 

 petiolulate; base cordate; the lower pair two-lobed, whilst the 

 terminal pinna is either three-lobed or sinuately pinnatifid, the 

 basal segments being the longest. 



