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POLYPODIUM. 
PoLYPODIUM OBSCURUM. (Hook. Caudex? stipes and rachis intensely ebenous-black polished glandularly pubes- 
cent, fronds 1-14 foot long, 6-10 inches broad, submembranaceous ovate acuminate pinnate pinnatifid at the apex, pinnæ rather wide 
apart horizontally patent 4-5 inches long, 3 (in the fertile frond), 1 inch (in the sterile) broad, oblong-lanceolate acuminate somewhat 
contracted in the lower half of the sterile frond, uniformly and deeply pinnatifid to near the rachis in the fertile frond, less deeply above 
the middle in the sterile one where the pinnæ is broadest, segments oblong obtuse scarcely falcate entire or subserrate, the sinuses obtuse, 
veins free simple or forked, sori copious dorsal or sometimes terminal in 2 series intermediate between the costule and the margin, costæ 
and costules villosulous, very slender in the sterile plant, stouter in the fertile, the former black at the base beneath. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv, 
237 ;—Phegopteris obscure Fée. Gen. Fil ,—Stenosemia aurita. J. Sm. in Hook. Gen, Fil. t. 94. f.f. 5 and 6 (only and as regards 
Cuming's plant, n, 302) ;—Phegopteris Philippinensis 2nd var. Mett. Pheg. p. 27. 
The specimen figured is from Tavoy—(Parish)—in outline it is very similar to Lastrea melanopus (Pl. 38 of this work.) 
Hab. Tavoy, Leyti, Philippine Islands. 
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