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POLYPODIUM. 
` POLYPODIUM SUBDIGITATUM. (Bl) Caudex slender, suberect flexuose scaleless, radicant with wiry fibres, terminated 
by a tuft of scaly stramineous stipites a span to a foot and more high, fronds 1-2 feet high, ovate acuminate firm membranaceous quadri- 
pinnate, primary secondary and tertiary pinnæ petiolate, ultimate ones ovate cuneate and subpetiolulate at the base, about + of an inch 
long, pinnatifid with few oblongo-obovate, obtuse segments, pinnate at the base, the ultimate pinnule broader than the segments and lobed, 
veins and simple or forked veiulets subflexuose terminating below the apex of a lobe and there bearing the rather small globose sorus ;一 ` 
Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 256 ;—Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 196. t. 93;—Polypodium davallioides. Mett. Polyp. p. 32 ;—Hook. Sp. FW. iv. 256 ; 
Monachosorum ;— Kze, in Schk. Fil. Suppl. ii. p. 1. t. 101;—Polypodium coniifolium. Wall. Cat. n. 326. 
There are clusters of tuberiform excrescences in the axils of the pinnæ, which Sir W. Hooker considers may bg gemme or 
so buds, or possibly fungi. 
The specimen figured (a lower pinna) is from Sikkim—(Dr. Hooker.) 
Hab, Nepal, Sikkim 7—8000 ft., Bhotan, Malay Islands, 3-7000 ft., Java, Malay Penins, 
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