Portiou of mature Frond — under side. 



POLYPODIUM * REPENS. 



SWARTZ. KU^ZE. WiLLDENOW. PlUMIER. 

 PLATE IX. B. VOL. II. 



Cyrtophlehium repens, 

 Camp yloneur urn repens, 



J. Smith. 



Link. J. Smith. 



Poljfpodium — Polypody. 



Repens — Creej)uig. 



In the Sectioi^ Cyrtophlebium of Authors. 



An ornamental creeping Fern. 



An evergreen stove species. 



Native of the American Meridian, Jamaica, and the West 

 Indies. 



Introduced into England in 1816, and into the Royal Gar- 

 dens, Kevv, in 1841, from the Berlin Royal Gardens. 



Fronds simple, lanceolate-acuminate in form, reclining, gla- 

 brous, undulated, decurrent at the base, somewhat membranous; 

 fronds lateral, articulated on the rhizoma, which is creeping, 

 slender, and scaly. 



