Puate 1667. 
POLYPODIUM MAXIMOWICZII, Baker. 
Fiuices, Sub-order Potypopracez, Tribe Potyropres. 
Has. Japan; high mountains of the island of N ippon, Mazximowicz, 
Hancock. 
Stipites 2-3-pollicares. Lamina pedalis et ultra, medio 8-12 lin. lata. 
This is one of the few endemic ferns of the high mountains of Japan. 
It is one of the two species on which Dr. Hance founded his genus 
Ptilopteris, the other being my Aspidium reductum.—J. G. BAKER. 
Fig. 1. Whole plant: life size. 2. Sterile pinna. 3. Portion of fertile frond. 
4, Fertile pinna. §. Lobe of pinna, with sorus : all more or less enlarged. 
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