Portion of mature Frond— under side. 



POLYPODIUM APPENDICULATUM. 

 Linden. J. Smith. 



PLATE XIX. VOL. II. 



Folypodium scriptiim, Of Gardens. 



Goniophlehium appendiculatum, Moore. 



Polypodium — Polypody. Appendiculatum — Appendaged. 



This very beautiful Fern is but little known amongst culti- 

 vators generally. The club-headed apices of the veins and the 

 veins themselves being bright purple crimson, the frond has a 

 singularly beautiful appearance. 



An evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of Mexico. 



Fronds deeply pinnatifid or subpinnate, segments linear-oblong, 

 acute, or attenuate; lower one sublobate. Form of the frond 

 oblong or elongately triangular, with a broad base of from four 

 to five inches wide. 



Rachis, costa, and veins purplish crimson in colour. Stipes 

 five inches in length, and when mature greenish. 



E,hizoma green, smoothish, and creeping, and having brown 

 scales. 



Length twelve inches; colour pale green. 



Sori small and sub-immersed, uniserial, situated on the apices 

 of the lower anterior veinlets. 



