Pinna of barren Frond— upper side. 



POLYBOTRYA OSMUNDACEA. 



Humboldt and Bonpland. Hooker. J. Smith. 



Sprengel. Kaulfuss. Hooker and Bauer. 



Fee. Presl. 



PI-ATE LXI. VOL. VII. 



JPolyhotrya cylindrica, Kaulfuss. Sprengel. 



" " KuNZE. J. Smith. Peesl. 



*' " Fee. Schott. Mooee. 



" s^peciosa, Schott. 



Polyhotrya — From the Greek, polys — many, and hotrys — a raceme. 



A VERY handsome Fern. 



An evergreen stove species, with a scandent habit, climbing 

 more than twenty feet up trunks of trees. 



Native of Brazil, St. Catharine Island, Jamaica, and South 

 America. 



Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1843, having 

 been received from Mr. N. Wilson. 



Barren and fertile fronds different; the sterile ones, rising 

 from a dark, scaly, stout, creeping stem, being erect and 

 short-stalked. Fronds spreading, and four to six inches wide, 

 a lengthy triangular form; edge toothed; glabrous, deep green, 

 and having much the appearance of a Polystichum. 



