CHEILANTHES. - o 
CHEILANTHES FRAGRANS. (Webb. and Berth.) Stipes cæspitose, wiry, 1-3 inches long, densely clothed with reddish- - 
brown linear scales ; fronds 2-3 inches long, about 1 inch broad, ovate-acuminate, bi or tripinnatifid ; vinnæ opposite, 3-2 inch long, 4-3 | ۱ 
inch broad, deltoid, cut down to the rachis below into several sinuato-pinnatifid linear-oblong lobes ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis polished 
but slightly scaly, both surfaces green and naked; sort small, copious; involucre light-brown, membranaceous, toothed. Syn. Fil, 
p. 134 ;— Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. 81. Polypodium fragraus, Linn. C. odora and suaveolens, Swartz. C. Maderensis, Lowe. | 
| The specimen figured is from the Himalayas 
Hab. N. W. Himalayas (5,000 ft.)— South of France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Canaries, Madeira, Algeria, | Syria, and 3 
Afghanistan. S | | 
PLATE No. COCXXX VIII. 
