POLYPODIUM. (See Ferns of S. India, p. 54.) 



1. POLYPODIUM TRICHOMANOIDES (Sw.) Caudex short erect paleaceous above densely rooting with wiry fibres, 

 stipitea short, J-l inch long, densely tufted, patenti-villous with long fibrous hairs, fronds 34 inches to a span long, 2-4 lines wide 

 rigid-membranaceous, linear, attenuated at both extremities, deeply nearly to the costa pinnatifid or almost pinnate (quite so at the very 

 base,) lobes horizontally patent from a broad base, ovate or oblong entire, sub-concave beneath, sub-deciduously ciliated with long fibrous 

 or blackish patent hairs, veins solitary in each lobe, simple or forked, each lobe having a single sorus near the costa.— Hook. Sp. FiL 

 iv . 178;— Sw. Syn. Fil p. 184 ;—R gibbosum, Fee.;—?. Serricula, Fee;— P. nanum, Fee;—?, sertularioides, J. Sm, in Hook 

 Joitrn. of Hot, iii. 394. 



The specimen figured is from the Sikkim, Himalaya, (Dr. Thomson.) 



Hab. Tropical America from Brazil and Guiana to the Pacific, and the Islands,— Malacca, Lachen, Sikkim— Himalaya, 

 Islands of Ascension X 



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