POLYPODIUM. 
POLYPODIUM 5001111. (Bedd.) Caudex suberect, stout tufted, clothed with brownish-black subulate scales as is the - 
base of the stipe, fronds pinnate oblong with the stipe 10-12 inches long, by about 3 inches broad, rachis furnished with hair-like 
scales, pinnæ alternate 6-7 approximated pairs, with a terminal one, lower pair not much decreased in size, all short oblong or ovate 
obtuse from a square unequal base about 14 inches long, by a little less than 1 inch broad, and furnished with falcate acute serratures, | 
glabrous on both sides but with a few weak sete or scales on the costa and veins, especially beneath, veins in pinnate groups, the 
lower veinlet or the two lower not reaching more than halfway to the margin, upper ones terminating in a dot within the margin, sori 
medial on the lower 2-3 veinlets, 
Lately discovered by Mr. J. Scott in the valley of the Rungio (elevation 2,000 feet), near the Govt. Cinchona Gardens. The | | 
venation is that of Lastrea cuspidata, and it may perhaps be an abnormal form of that species, 
PLATE No. CCCXLY. 
