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are of a soft, papery texture and dark green colour, and the spore masses are 

 disposed at their extremity. — TTooker, Species Filicum., iv., p. 256. Beddome, 

 Ferns of British India, t. 259. 



P. subfalcatum — sub-fal-ca'-tum (somewhat sickle-shaped), Blume. 



This distinct, greenhouse species, of small dimensions, is a native of 

 Northern India, occurring at various elevations up to 8000ft. Its erect and 

 somewhat hairy fronds, 6in. to 9in. long and fin. to lin. broad, are borne 

 on stalks less than lin. long, thinly clothed with soft, spreading hairs. 

 The close, spreading, sharply-toothed leaflets are of a soft, papery texture, 

 and slightly hairy on both sides. The small, 

 round spore masses are disposed in rows, one 

 to each tooth, half-way between the midrib and 

 the margin. Fig. 63 is reduced from Col. 

 Beddome's "Ferns of British India," by the 

 kind permission of the author. — Hooker, Species 

 Filicum, iv., p. 193. Nicholson, Dictionary of 

 Gardening, iii., p. 194. Beddome, Ferns of 

 British India, t. 7%. 



P. (Niphobolus) subfurfuraceum— Niph- 



ob'-ol-us ; sub-fur-fur-a'-ce-um (somewhat 



scurfy). Hooker. 

 A strong-growing species, producing from a 

 short-creeping rhizome its entire fronds l^ffc, to 

 2ft. long, 4in. to 5in. broad, sharp-pointed at 

 their summit, gradually narrowed at their lower 

 part, of a leathery texture, naked on their upper 



surface, but somewhat rough with a woolly substance underneath. The spore 

 masses are disposed in one or two irregular rows of six to ten each. — 

 Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 52. Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. 259. 



P. (Phegopteris) submarginalis— Phe-gop'-ter-is ; sub-mar-gin-a'-lis 

 (nearly marginal), Langsdorff and Fischer. 

 A stove species, native of Brazil and Venezuela, with fronds 2ft. long 

 and Sin. to lOin. broad ; their leaflets, 4in. to 5in. long, are deeply cleft into 



Fi^, 63. Polypodium subfalcatum 

 (4 nat. size). 



