Fertilo i^inna— upper side. 



NOTHOCHLtENA FLAVENS. 



Moore. 



PLATE VIII. 



Cincinalis flavens, Desvaux. J. Smith. 



Acrostichum flavens, Swaetz. 



Gymnogramme flavens, Kaulfuss. 



Nothochlcena — From the Greek, notlios — spurious, and chlaina — a cloak, 

 in allusion to the sori. Flavens — Yellow. 



A VEEY fine gold Fern, the under side of the frond being 

 covered with a rich yellow farinose powder. 



An evergreen stove species. 



Native of Central America. 



The fronds are bipinnate, the lower pinnse bearing bluntly- 

 oblong pinnules, the superior ones becoming sessile and the 

 terminal one lobed; above a rigid green, below brilliant 

 yellow, from copious farinae. Branches sub-opposite, ascending. 



Sori linear, continuous, and becoming after a time confluent, 

 and thus forming a broad dark marginal belt of rounded sori. 



