18 ASPIDIUM STRIGOSUM. 



This Fern should be in every collection. 



An evergreen stove species. 



Native of Mauritius. 



The fronds, which are pinnate, are glabrous on the upper 

 surface. The pinnae are pinnatifid, ovate-lanceolate in form, 

 attenuate, and sub-ojoposite. Segments rather obtuse, the lower 

 and upper ones the longest. 



Sori medial; indusium minute. 



Stipes somewhat angular, and being furnished for about two 

 inches at the base with long blackish incurved scales, and also 

 with thinly scattered shorter scales on the rest of the stipes 

 and rachis; these parts are also thickly covered throughout 

 with very short pellucid gland ulose hairs. 



Length of frond twenty-four inches; colour pale green. 



For fronds my thanks are due to Mr. Joseph Henderson, of 

 Wentworth. 



It is not in any of the Nurserymen's Catalogues. 



The illustration is from Mr. Joseph Henderson's frond. 



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