POLYSTICHUM. 
POLYSTICHUM ANOMALUM. (Hook, and Arn.) Caudex erect? stipites tufted— 1-2 feet long, stout at the base, densely 
paleaceous with very narrow long flexuose ciliated scales (the lowest ones) and very large ciliated lanceolate thin broad-lanceolate ones 
almost an inch long, the latter kind (but smaller) continue upwards upon the stipes and main rachis and are deciduous, fronds ample 2 
foot and more long, subcoriaceous, ovato-lanceolate bi-rarely below tripinnate, primary pinne 6-8 inches long lanceolato-acuminate, pin- 
nules shortly petiolate, subfalcate obliquely ovate or ovato-lanceolate acute lobato-pinnatifid coarsely serrated towards the apex rarely 
obtuse or mucronate, superior truncated base auriculate, sori biseriate terminal on the veinlets usually on the superior face! involucres 
when present orbicular peltate very frequently wanting. Hook, Sp. Fil. iv, 27 ;--Polypodium anomalum, Hook. and Arn, M. $, Š, 
Hook, in Kew. Gard. Mise, viii. p. 360. t. ii. Metten. Aspid. p. 12 ;—Polystichum anomalum, T’hwaites. | 
. The specimen figured is from Ceylon—(alt, 5-6,000 ft.) except in the extraordinary fact of its bearing its sori on the upper side 
of the frond, it hardly differs from some forms of the very variable Polystichum aculeatum, and 8 probably an abormal form of that species, 
