4:2 OLEANDRA NERTTFORMTS. 



Fronds simple, lanceolate, exceedingly membranous, undulated; 

 margin entire, round, or somewhat attenuated at the base. 



The fronds, which are twelve inches in length, recline, and 

 are verticillate or sub-verticillate, and being articulated with a 

 frutescent scandent rhizoma. 



Rhizoma covered with brown scales. 



Colour of the frond vivid pale green. 



Sori uniserial; costal, crowded. Indusium reniform. 



Commonl}^ known as the Oleandra hirtella. 



For a plant of this species my obligations are due to M. 

 Schott, Director of the Imperial Gardens of Schonbriinn; and 

 for fronds to Sir W. J. Hooker, Royal Gardens, Kew; Mr. 

 Sim, of Foot's Cray; and to Mr. Joseph Henderson, of Wentworth. 



It may be procured of Messrs. Veitch, of Chelsea; Sim, of 

 Foot's Cray; Rollisson, of Tooting; A.. Henderson, of Pine-apple 

 Place; E. G. Henderson, of St. John's Wood; and Booth, of 

 Hamburg. 



The illustration is from Sir William Hooker's frond. 



