188 ACROSTICHUM CUSPIDATUM. 



Fructification amorphous and distinct, covering the whole 

 under side, except the midrib, where there are red scales. 



Veins forked and free. 



Sterile and fertile fronds different. In the example figured 

 the sterile frond was eight inches in length, of which the stipes 

 was two inches, broadest in the middle, where six-tenths of an 

 inch wide, pointed at the apex, the scales on the upper surface 

 being mostly stellate. The fertile frond eight inches and a half 

 in length, of which the stipes was five inches and a half; width 

 four-tenths of an inch. Apex rounded. 



I am indebted to Mr. Henderson, of Wentworth, for fronds 

 of this species. 



It is in no Nurseryman's Catalogue. 



The illustrations are from Mr. Henderson's fronds. 



