60 NEPHROLEPIS TUBEROSA. 



Introduced into the Eoyal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1841, 

 having been received from the Berlin Royal Gardens. 



The fronds, which are pinnate, are slender, and of a nar- 

 row linear-lanceolate form. Pinnae cordate-auriculate, oblong, 

 and sub-imbricate; apex rounded; margin in some degree serrate. 



Veins forked; venules direct and free. 



Sori transversely uniserial, and circular. Indusium reniform. 



Rachis and stipes covered with narrow hair-like scales. 



Fronds terminal, forming a fascicle on a slender creeping 

 rhizoma. 



Length of frond from eighteen to twenty-four inches; colour 

 deep green. 



Mr. Henderson, of Wentworth, has sent a plant and fronds 

 of this species, and M. Schott, of Vienna, other fronds. 



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

 Veitch, of Chelsea; Booth, of Hamburg; Kennedy, of Covent 

 Garden; Masters, of Canterbury; Young, of Taunton; Stansfield, 

 of Todmorden; and Cooling, of Derby. 



The illustration is from Mr. Henderson's frond. 



