Ochropteris
(from ochros, pale, and pteris, a Fern; in reference to the colour of the plant). ORD. Filices. A monotypic genus. The species is an extremely rare and beautiful stove Fern, requiring an abundance of heat and moisture to grow it successfully. It thrives best in a compost of peat and sand, with a little loam added. For general culture, see Ferns.
O. pallens (pale). sti. 2ft. long, naked. fronds about the same length, about 1ft. broad, deltoid, quadripinnatifid; lower pinnules 3in. to 4in. long, 2in. broad, their segments cut down to the rachis below, with oblong, toothed, lower lobes. sori marginal, transversely oblong, occupying the apices of the lobes of the segments; involucre the same shape as the sorus, formed of the reflexed margin of the frond, with which it coincides in texture, and covering the sorus. Mauritius. (H. S. F. 77B.)