TAB. LXV 



POLYPODIUM LONGIFRONS 



FILICES.— GYEATiE. Br. 



Polypodiace^e. Kaulf Filices verae. Willd., Spreng 



Gen. Char. POLYPODIUM, Sw 



nullum. Br. 



Sori subrotundi (seriati, sparsi v. conferti). lnvolucrur 



* 



Polypodium longifrons ; stipite subnullo, frondibus lanceolatis acuminatis integerrimis membrana- 



ceis reticulatis tenuissime marginatis, basi longe attenuatis, soris ubique sparsis, caudice lon- 

 gissimo. 



Polypodium longifrons. Wall. MSS. 



Polypodium normale ? Don. Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p.l. 



* 



Hab. India Orientali. Wall. In Nepalia ? Hamilton. 



Caudex longissime repens, crassus, flexuosus, lignosus, hispido-squamosus, radiculosus, fibris filiformibus, ramosis, 



fusco-tomentosis. 



Stijpes subnullus, vel, si mavis, brevissimus, alatus, in frondem sensim superne dilatatus. 



* 



■ 



Frondes, plurimae ex eodem caudice, ut videtur, pendentes, sesquipedales et ultra, lanceolatae, glabrse, membra- 



naceae, subpellucidae, reticulatse, in areolis uniglandulosae (fig. 1.), integerrimae, margine subundulatae, tenuiter 



incrassatae, apice acuminatae, inferne long 



fusca 



Sori numerosi, hemisphaerici, per totam inferiorem partem frondis sine ordine sparsi 



Capsulce flavo-fuscae, longe pedicellatae. 



Semina oblonga, subreniformia, pellucida vix colorata. 



Fig. 1 . Portio frondis, cum soris. f. 2. Capsulae. f. 3. Semina : — magn. auct. 



* 



For our knowledge of this fine species of Potypodium we are indebted to the Honourable the 

 East India Company, from whom we have received it with the MS. name here adopted, but without 



any particular habitat being g 



\ 



It 



however, probably from Nepal, and is perhaps the same 



as the P. normale of Mr. Don ; but the character in the Prodromus Florcs Nepalensis of that 

 author is too short to enable us to determine that point satisfactorily. 





