Barren Frond— under side. 



POLYPODIUM OWARIENSE. 

 Desvaux. Kunze. 



PLATE LXIl. VOL. II. 



Goniophlehium Oioarense, Loddiges' Catalogue. 



JPolypodium ovariense, Speengel. 



Polypodiu7n — Polypody. Owariense — Owarian. 



In the Section Goniophlebium of Authors. 



Polypodium Otoariense is pnly to be met with in our largest 

 collections; it is a diminutive pretty Fern, and is an attractive 

 object when well cultivated. Mr.. J. Henderson, of Wentworth, 

 has some fine specimens. 



An evergreen stove species. 



Native of Sierra Leone and Guinea. 



Introduced into this country in the year 1849. 



Fronds simple, sessile, very smooth, and subcoriaceous. Veins 

 parallel. Sterile fronds obovate-elliptic, and repand. Fertile 

 fronds linear-lanceolate, very bluntly undulated. 



