Tortion of mature Frond— under side. 



POLYPODIUM HAEPEODES. 



Link. Kunze. 



PLATE XVII. VOL. II. 



GoniopJilehium Jiarpeodes, 

 Marginaria Jiarpeodes, 



J. Smith. Mooee and Houlston. 



Peesl. 



Polypodium — Polypody. 



Harpeodes — Scimitar-like. 



In the Section Goniophlebium of Authors. 



An interesting Fern, bearing a striking resemblance to the 

 Polypodium Catharince of Langsdorff and Fischer, and figured 

 in Vol. I., Plate XLIV., and described at page 131 of that 

 volume. 



Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1841, 

 from the Poyal Botanic Gardens of Berlin. 



An evergreen stove species. 



Native of Brazil. 



Fronds pinnatifid, the pinnae being nearly entire, lanceolate- 

 acuminate, scimitar-shaped, the lower ones standing forwards. 

 Fronds glabrous, broadly lanceolate in form, nearly erect in 

 habit; articulated on a stout, scaly, creeping rhizoma. 

 VOL. II. F 



