Portion of fortilc Frond— uiulcv side. 



ASPLEXIUM ALATUM. 



Hooker and Greville. Willdenow. Mettenius. 



Humboldt and Bonpland. Moore. J. Sjiith. 



PoiRET. Sprengel. Desvaux. Kunze. Klotzscii. 



Fee. {Not of Sieber, or Berthelot.) 



PLATE XII. B. 



Axplenium pferophoriim,, Pbesl. 



Asplenium — Spleenwort. Alaium — Winged. 



A SINGULAR Fern, having broad herbaceous -wings on either 

 side of the stipes, and between the pinnae on the rachis, with 

 a break where each pinna is attached. By no means a common 

 plant in cultivation. 



An evergreen stove species. 



Native of Tropical America, IVew Grenada, Venezuela, Peru, 

 Jamaica, Brazil, Sierra Leone, and St. Vincent. 



The fronds, which are membranaceous and herbaceous, are 

 pinnate; pinna: distant and numerous, and equal in size except near 

 the apex of the frond, and from one to two inches in length, 

 almost sessile, base briefly wedge-shaped, the superior ba.fte 

 auriculate. The form of the frond is broadly-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, and frequently proliferous at the apex. Stipes and 



