2 POLYPODIUM PARADISEJE. 



Native of the West Indies, Brazil, and St. Catharine's Island. 



It was introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the year 

 1841, having been received from the Koyal Gardens of Berlin. 



Easily propagated from divisions of the creeping rhizoma. 



Very slender pubescent fronds, lanceolate-elongate in form, 

 sub-pinnate, with linear segments, nearly horizontal, (or at right- 

 angles to the main stem,) narrowing both to base and apex. 



Stipes very short, in a frond three feet in length only one 

 inch and a half long. 



Length of frond from two to five feet. In a frond thirty- 

 four inches in length there were eighty-three pairs of pinnse. 



E-achis and stipes blackish brown, hirsute, and much resemble 

 the tail of a mouse. 



Fronds articulated on a scaly creeping rhizoma. 



Sori uniserial, terminal, about twenty-four pairs on each pinna, 

 occupying nearly all the frond. Colour orange yellow. 



For plants of this species I am indebted to Mr. Clarke, 

 Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasgow; and to Messrs. 

 Rollisson, of Tooting; and for fronds to Mr. J. Henderson, of 

 Wentworth; Mr. Smith, Curator of the Royal Gardens, Kew; 

 Mr. Norman, of Hull; and Mr. Sim, of Foot's Cray. 



It may be procured of Messrs. A. Henderson, of Pine-apple 

 Place; Booth, of Hamburg; Rollisson, of Tooting; Kennedy, of 

 Covent Garden; and Sim, of Foot's Cray. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



