174 



POLYPODIUM, 



xOLYPGDIUM DAEE^FORME. (Hook.) Caudex thickish creeping densely ferruglneo-paleaceous with lanceolate much 

 acuminated scales, stipes 4 inches long glossy pale-chestnut colored, frond a span long ovato-deltoid submembranaceous bipinnate, 

 primary pinnae 4-5 inches long 1 J inch wide, oblong-lanceolate subsessile acuminate subpinnatifid, segments linear or subspathulate 

 obtuse simple or bifid, veinlets solitary in each segment clavate terminating below the apex bearing a sorus generally much below the 

 olavate apex, capsules very few in each sorus. Hook. Sp. Fil iv. 256. 2nd Cent, of Ferns, t 24. 



The figure is taken from the 2nd Cent, (of Ferns,) 



Hab, Khasya Hills, Birmah, (Parish in lit) 



PLATE No. CLXXIV. 



