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POLYPODIUM OVATUM. 





FILICES.— Gyratte. Br. Polypodiace;e. Kaulf. Filices verse. JViUd., Spreng 



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Gen. Char. POLYPODIUM, Swartz. Sori subrotundi (seriati, sparsi v. conferti). Invohicrum 



nullum. Br. 





Polypodium ovatum ; frondibus indivisis stipitatis membranaceis e basi decurrente ovatis acumina- 



tis integerrimis costatis nervis parallelis, soris inter nervos simplici serie. 

 Polypodium ovatum. Wall. MSS. 

 Hab. In India Orientali. Wallich. 



Radix e fibris numerosis, fuscis, ramosis, hic et illic ferrugineo-tomentosis. 



Caudex teres, repens, nigro-fuscus, squamis membranaceis tectus. 



Stipes digitalis ad palmarem, subflexuosus, rigidus, fusco-viridis, glaberrimus, inferne hispido-paleaceus. 



Frons stipite subbrevior, e basi decurrente vel in stipitem attenuata, ovata, acuminata, omnino integerrima, mem- 



branacea, glabra, costata, venis lateralibus oblique patentibus parallelis, venulisque transversis has connecten- 

 tibus instructa. 



Sori simplici (rarissime duplici) serie dispositi, rotundati, nudi. 

 Capsulce longe pedicellatae, sphaericae, annulo lato incompleto cincta^. 

 Semina ovalia, subangulata, reticulata. 

 Fig. 1 . Capsulae. f. 2. Semina : — magn. auct. 





We have no means of ascertaining in what part of India this curious and rare Fern was discovered. 

 It approaches the character of P. scolopendrium of Hamilton in Don s Flora Nepalensis ; and this 

 may perhaps be a native of the same country. 





