Pinna of mature Frond — ^nnder side. 



POLTPODIUM CUSPIDATUM. 



Don. Kunze. Sprengel. {not Blume or Presl.) 



PLATE XXV. VOL. II. 



Phymatodes cusjpidata, 

 I*olypodium leiorhizum, 

 Phymatodes leiorhiza, 

 Drynaria leiorhiza^ 

 Pleojpeltis cusj)idata. 



J. Smith. 



Wallich. Kunze. 



Peesl. 



J. Smith. Mooee & Hottlston. 



MOOEE. 



Polypodium — Polypody. 



Cti'Spidatum — Pointed. 



In the Section Drynaria of Authors. 



A handsome Fern, with an extraordinary large, creeping, 

 smooth, spotted, snake-like rhizoma, and smooth, shining fronds. 



An evergreen stove species. 



Native of the East Indies, — Nepal. 



Fronds glabrous, pinnate, the pinnse lanceolate-acuminate, 

 ending in a very fine point; the inferior pinnje petiolatc, but 

 the upper ones adnate and decurrent; about twenty pairs of 

 pinna? on each frond. 



Length of frond from twenty-four to forty-four inches; colour 

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