Jamesoniane. N, O. Filices. 
TAB. DCCXIX. 
PoLypopium suscRENATUM. Hook. 
Caudice repente crassiusculo dense squamoso radicante, frondi- — 
bus erectis coriaceis petiolatis (petiolo breviusculo glabro) linea- 
nibus acuminatis profunde fere ad rachin pinnatifidis glabris : 
subtus fuscescenti-glaucis, laciniis ovatis patentibus obtusis 
crenatis marginibus revolutis, soris singula lacinia subqua- 
ternis, 
Has. Andes of Quito. Prof. W. Jameson, n. 215. 
A small but well-marked species (allied to P. rigescens, mee . 
216), with a long, creeping, branche¢ s 
caudex, moderately stout, clothed with brown, lanceolato-subu- 
Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. & 
late scales, sending out from beneath copious branching nets: 
Toots, and from the upper surface several upright, linear, 
acuminate, erect, coriaceous, petiolated, deeply pinnatifid fronds, — 
Opaque on the surface on both sides ; in a dry state, almost 
brown black on the upper side; beneath, of a brownis 
glaucous colour. Segments patent, ovate, obtuse, veinless, 
convex above, concave beneath, the margin more or less a 
tinetly crenate and recurved, each bearing about four sori, whit = 
occupy nearly the whole disc. Stipes scarcely half the length : 
of the frond, quite smooth and glabrous. 
Fig... Fertile Segment of a frond :—magnified. 
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