100 
6-12 inches long, erect, scaly. Fronds pinnate, 
lance-shaped, acuminate, 9-18 inches long, 
4-8 inches broad, pinnze 3-6 inches long, 
8-3 inch broad, narrowed gradually to a 
point from a broad cordate or even auricled 
base. Rachis and both surfaces naked or 
slightly hairy. Texture leathery. Veins in- 
conspicuous. 
" Cultivated. 
Distribution: America, common from Mexico 
and West Indies southward to Chili and 
South Brazil. 
3. Blechnum cartilagineum Sw. 
Caudex oblique, densely clothed at the crown 
with blackish fibrillose scales. Stipes 4-6 
inches long, scaly and covered with short, hard 
tubercular excrescences. Fronds: 1-2 feet.long, 
6-g inches broad, pinnate, broadly lancé- 
shaped ; pinnez sessile, dilated and connected 
at the base, narrowed gradually towards the 
point; margin finely toothed. Rachis and 
both surfaces naked. Texture leathery. Veins 
fine. Sori in a broad line close to the midrib. 
« Cultivated. 
-,. Distribution : Temperate Australia. 
