TAB. CLXVIHI. CLXIX. 
POLYPODIUM WALLICHII. 
 FILICES.—Gvnzarz. Br. | PorvropraAcEx. Kaulf.  Firiczs verm. Br. 
Ggw. Cuan.. POLYPODIUM, Linn. Sori subrotundi (seriati, sparsi vel conferti). mvo- 
lucrum nullum. 2r. 
PovvropruM JZallichii; frondibus longe stipitatis profunde bipartitis coriaceis reticulatis glabris, 
subtus pallidioribus, lobis palmatis integerrimis binervibus, soris sparsis. 
Polypodium Wallichii. Brown MSS. in JF: 77 Lást of Species in Mus. of. E. I. C. n. 287. 
Polypodium macrocheiros. |77Zai/.in Herb.1823. 
Has. In montibus * Pundora" dictis, prope Silhet, EL JDe Silva. (JF'allich.) 
Caudex subrepens, crassus, hic illic grosse fibrosus. 
Stipes bi-tripedalis, erectus, teres, glaber, nudus, pallide fuscus, pennse anserinze crassitie, teres, hinc sulcatus. 
Frons magna, circumscriptione lato-oblonga, sesquipedalem longa, duas vel fere tres pedes lata, subcoriacea, 
viridis, subtus pallidior sed minime glaucescens, ubique glabra, profundissime bipartita, vel, si mavis, binata, . 
lobis latissime cuneato-palmatis, laciniis ensiformibus magis minusve attenuatis, integerrimis, vel nonnun- 
quam obscure dentatis, nervosis. 
Nervi ad basin loborum radiatim dichotomi, in singula lacinia semper geminati, infra apices coadunati; venc reti- 
culate, areolis oblongis majusculis, non ad marginem attingentibus, venulosis, venularum areolis subqua- 
dratis, iterum et bisque etiam (sub lente) minutissime reticulatis. 
Sori in venis ternariis sparsi, parvi, pallide fusci, hemispheerici, compacti. 
Capsule subglobosse, reticulatee, annulo lato subintegro cinctae. 
Semina pallide fusca, oblonga, subpellucida. 
Fig.1. Portio frondis. f.2. Capsule. £f. 3. Semina:—valde magn. auct. 
'This most remarkable plant has already received a name in honour of our excellent and most 
liberal friend Dr. Wallich. It was one amongst the innumerable treasures brought by that gentle- 
en himself from the East Indies, and was 1n the first of those collections that have been so widely 
i3 distributed by the Honourable the East India Company. "To the noble and generous conduct of 
» the Company in that instance we have more than once had occasion to,allude. But in saying 
that the immense Herbaria (with the judicious reservation of a complete set for the Company's 
Museum) were to be dispersed among the Botanists of Europe, we named only a small part of the 
services they were about to confer on science. Within the last few weeks Dr. Wallich has received 
from the Directors, with a view to a similar destination, all the collections of Roxburgh, Buchanan, 
Patrick Russel, Heyne, Róttler; in short, all those of continental Indian plants. 
It is quite to be expected that the Phzenogamous Botany of our Indian possessions will thus be 
materially illustrated ; so likewise, in the department that especially concerns our present work, the 
Ferns, the additions are vastly numerous. Indeed, to such an extent have we been enriched by 
Dr. Wallich alone, with the plants of this beautiful tribe, that we should be wanting in common 
justice to the Directors of the East India Company, to Dr. Wallich himself, and to the public, did 
we not now pledge ourselves to their publication, either in the present form, or in à work not less 
worthy of them in point of size and execution, and which shall be exclusively devoted to them. 
It is among the recent additions to Dr. Wallich's collections now mentioned, that we find beautiful 
specimens of the present Fern, from which our drawing and descriptions have been made. "The 
specimen selected for the figure, however, though perfect in all its parts, is a small one, as best 
suited to the size of the plate. We know of only one Po/ypodium that approaches this in general 
habit, and in the curious and beautiful veining of the frond, and that is the P. Horsfieldü of 
Mr. Brown's MSS. and of Dr. Wallich's List of Specimens in the Honourable East India Company's 
Museum, n. 286; the P. palmatum of Wall. Herb. 1823, gathered by Dr. Wallich in Penang, and 
distributed in 1829. This latter appears to be the JDpteris conjugata of Reinwardt, Sylloge PI. 
Nov. in Bot. Zeit. v. 2. 1828 (according to my copy, 1825 according to Dr. Blume) ; the P. Di- 
