POLYPODIUM. 
PoLYPODIUM FUSCATUM. (BL) Stipe tufted, 1-3 inches long, densely clothed with soft spreading hairs ; ; fronds ` + 
3-6 inches long, 4-1 inch broad, cut down nearly or quite to the rachis throughout into close entire obtuse pinne, 3 lin. broad, the a 
lower ones shorter and broader, texture subcoriaceous, rachis and both sides thinly clothed with soft hairs ; veins obscure, sae ; 08 
sort forming a close row on each side the midrib, at last filling nearly the whole surface. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 331. 
Hab, Ceylon, Java. 
PLATE No. CCOXXIV, 
