Portion of fertile Frond— under side. 



LYGODIUM FLEXUOSUM. 



Swartz. J. Smith. 



PLATE LXXIII. VOL. VIII. 



Ophioglossum flexuosum, 

 Lygodiwm dickotomum, 

 Hydroglossum flexuosum, 



LlNN-EUS. 



SWAETZ. HOOKEK AND GEEVILLE. 



WlLLDENOW. 



Lygodium — From lygodes, flexible, in allusion to the twining habit 

 of the plants. Flexuosum — Winding. 



A very beautiful climbing Fern, which deserves to be ex- 

 tensively grown, and is the finest plant of this genus. 



A stove species. 



Native of the East Indies and the Malayan Archipelago. 



Cultivated in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1834. 



Fronds sub-bipartite; pinnules about twelve inches in length, 

 smooth and vivid green, palmate, lanceolate-acuminate, serrulate, 

 the fertile ones very much narrower, and bearing the spore- 

 cases along the edges. 



Veins branching and conspicuous. 



The fronds, which are in pairs on inch long stalks and 

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