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POLYPODIUM. (See “Ferns of Southern India,” p. 55.) 
P OLYPODIUM AURICULATUM. (Wall) Caudex ? stipes stout densely villous with white matted hairs (as is the rachis) 
furnished below with numerous ovate black shining scales, fronds ample firm membranaceous 3 feet and more long, 16 inches broad, 
oblongo-lanceolate acuminate gradually attenuated below by the dwarfing of the pinnæ, pinnated, pinns numerous about 8 inches long by 
1 inch broad, sessile and furnished at the base on the under side with a curious hooked gland, pinnatifid nearly to the rachis, segments 
broad oblong very obtuse entire subfalcate, costa costules and veins villous and the segments sparingly hairy on both sides between the [ 
veins, veins pinnate simple extending to the margin lowest pair entering the margin above the sinus, soriferous below the middle, Spore i 
cases furnished with a few long weak hairs.—Sir W. Hooker does not mention the carious glands and states that the lowest pair of veins P 
meet in the sinus, there however can be but little doubt that this is Wallich's plant. | 
The specimen figured is from Dalhousie, Himalayas. (Col, Dyas.) 
Hab. Himalayas, 
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