: Polypodium.} POLYPODIACH. — 1255 
2809. NepHRoueris conpirouia Presl ; F. I. C. 282. Polypodium 
ee dias a I. 761 = C. B. C.). 
C.B i. Bengal. 
A tutte ted, wiry fern; fronds up to 2 feet long. 
2810. Sipe EXALTATA Schott; F. I. C. 282. N. acuta 
I. C. 284. 
eevee 
ufted, wiry fern ; fronds up to 3 feet long. 
2811. NePHROLEFIS voLuBiuis J, Sm.; F. I. C. 284 
Chittagong. 
A long, climbing fern, extending over trees to 50 feet or 
ore. 
1140. Polypodium Linn. 
Herbs, with stems continuous with the caudex or articulating at 
_ point of junction with the rhizome; fronds very various in size, 
form, and division, sometimes entire, often variously lobed or pin- 
___ hate, uniform or diverse in form or texture or both ; veins free or 
_ Yariously anastomosing. Sori on the back of the lobes, round or 
rarely oblong, never more than twice as long as broad, medial 
or terminal on the veins; indusiwm absent 
ie pene continuous with the caudex, and sori always medial on the 
Bt 
rsx free ; fronds 3-pinnate, large 
Caudex erect ; stipes sealy, not pies fronds up to 15-20 feet long ; ; 
sori medial 
Rhizome wide-creeping; stipe viscous-pubescent ; pane up to 
4 feet long; sori towards but not on the apices of the veins 
punctatum, 
Veins confluent :— 
Veins pinnate, with the lower veinlets of contiguous groups joining ; 
the rema sabi veins free; fronds pinnate; pinne with distinctly 
lobed m Nissan 
Stipe pee frond usually decumbent, elongating and rooting 
at the tip, and copiously agin from the axils ; = moeaee A 
lobed ; veinlets free, 6-10 a ru 
oe erect ; pa not a or branched ; pinne be lak 
cately lobed ; veinlets 15-20 a side ............+++-+00+- = 
Neale pene: anastomosing ; fronds distinetly dimo 
aan ada 
rally terminal on the veinlets ; 
) Stems articulating at the point ~ Siig with the anime 3 sori gene- 
