Cheilanthes
Upwards of sixty species, many of them extending beyond the tropics, are embraced in this genus. To those described on pp. 307-9, Vol. I., the following should now be added:
C. californica (Californian). A synonym of Hypolepis californica (which see, on p. 170, Vol. II.).
C. chlorophylla (green-fronded). rhiz. stout, paleaceous. sti, contiguous, 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. long, erect, polished, naked, dark chestnut-brown. fronds 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. long, 4in. to 8in. broad, ovate-lanceolate, tripinnatifid; pinnae 3in. to 5in. long, 3/4in. to 1 1/2in. broad, distant, lanceolate; pinnules lanceolate, cut down to the rachis into numerous entire, linear-oblong segments. sori numerous, small, roundish, placed on both edges. South America, 1883. Greenhouse. SYN. Hypolepis spectabilis (H. S. F. ii. 88 B).