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POLYPODIES. 

 POLY PODIUM. (See " Ferns of Southern India," p. 55.) 



IrOLYPODIUM SUBFALCATUM. (Bl.) Caudex small, obliquely erect, crinite rather than paleaceous, stipites short, 3-8 lines 

 long, patenti-pilose, fronds firm-membranaceous, hairy on both sides and on the costa, 6-8 inches long, 1-1 1 inch broad, oblong-lanceolate 

 subacuminate attenuated below deeply almost to the raehis pinnatifid, segments horizontally patent fronTa rather broad and decurrent 

 base, linear-lanceolate acute, strongly serrated or pinnatifido-serrate, lower ones remote, distinct smaller than the rest, costule slender flex- 

 uose, veins evident, distant oblique soriferous at the apex, sori small globose one to each serrature equi-distant between the costule and the 

 margin. Hook Sp. Fil. iv. 193.— Bl. Fil. Jav.,p. 186. t. 87. A. B. J. Sm. in Hook Joum. Bot. III. p. 394. Meiten. Polyp, p 52 ■ 

 —P. fili pendulifolium ;-FZe. en. Fil. p. 240,-6 me. Mlm. p. 11. t. 5/. 3, mr. J. (Sglabrum ; fronds glabrous. 



The specimen figured is from the Herbarium of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, 



Hab. Nepal, Kumaon (alt. 8,000 feet). Sikkim, Himalaya, Java, Luzon, 



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