118 



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



POLYPODIUM ELONGATUM. (Wall.) Caudex? stipes 1-1 1 foot and more long, stout tawny -brown, very paleaceous 

 below with, dark castaneous glossy falcato-subulate long acuminated scales, fronds ample, 2 feet and more long, 6-10 inches and more 

 broad, thin firm-coriaceous ovato-oblong acuminated pinnated to the very apex, pinnae numerous, more or less patent and distant. 5-10 

 inches long, J an inch broad subpetiolate from an obliquely cuneate, but not dilated, (rarely subauricled) base linear or elongato-oblong, 

 finely acuminated, the margin pinnatifid subduplicato-serrated, serratures subspinose, terminal pinnae like the rest but more petiolate, 

 veins copious fasciculato- pinnate, veinlets each of them bearing a dorsal sorus, and thus copious and irregularly scattered over the back 

 of the frond or in irregular series. Hook Sp. Fil iv. 234. Wall. Cat, n. 309 ; — Aspidium cuspidatum, Metten. Aspid. p. 92, 



The specimen figured is from Khasya— (from the Ceylon Herb.) 



Hab. Nepal, Khasya, 



PLATE No. CXVIIL 



