Pinna of mature Frond — nuder side. 



POLYPODIUM DISSIMILE. 



KUNZE. LlNN^US. SpREJSGEL, {not of SCHKUHR.) 



PLATE XXXV. VOL. II. 



GoniopJilehium dissimile, J. Smith. Mooee and Houlston. 



Polypodium — Polypody. Dissimile — Unlike. 



In the Section Goniophlebium of Authors. 



This pretty rare Fern is a very dissimilar species to any 

 other of the section Goniophlebium, in which it has very properly 

 been placed by Mr. Smith. Although scarcely yet known 

 amongst Fern-growers^ still it is a very desirable plant. 



An evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of Jamaica and Brazil. 



Fronds slender, pendulous, pubescent, articulated on a scaly 

 creeping rhizoma. Fronds lanceolate in form, pinnate, pinnae 

 being distant, sessile, subfalcate, lanceolate-acuminate, mem- 

 branous, undulated, and in a slight degree deilexed, the lower 

 ones standing forward. 



Sori biserial. 



Length of frond from twenty-four to thirty-six inches; colour 

 pale yellowish green. 



Introduced into England in the year 1820. 



