484 The Cryptogamoiis Plants of Dr. Roxburgh. 



Root ramous, creeping amongst moss, &c. 

 Stipes from 2 to 3 inches long, clothed with soft, stellate, 

 white down. 



Fronds all lanceolate, entire, long fine-pointed, upper 

 surface pretty smooth, but like the -stipe the underside is 

 clothed with soft, stellate down ; length about 6 inches. 



Fructification in numerous, large dots, over the centre 

 of the back of the fronds and nearly hid by the thick, soft, 

 stellate down, already mentioned. 



7. P. phymatodes. Linn. Mant. 306. 



Stipes smooth ; fronds from simple to being divided into 

 as far as five, or more, linear-lanceolate lobes. Fructifica- 

 tions scattered, large, and very conspicuous on the upper 

 surface. Involucre none found. 



P. scolopendria. Burm. Flor. Ind. 2S2. 



Poly podium, &c. Burm. Zeyl. 196, t. 86. 



Nat. of various parts of India. 



8. P. quercifolium. Icon. Roxb. 14, t. 96. 



Parasitic ; barren fronds sessile, ovate-cordate, slightly 

 pinnatifid ; fertile ones long-stiped, and deeply divided into 

 long sublinear segments. Fructifications scattered in nu- 

 merous minute spots over the whole of the back of the leaves. 



Pannae-kelengo-maravara. Rheed. Mai. 12. t. 11. 



Polypodium Indicum majus. Rumph. Amb. 6. t. 36. 



Beng. Goroor. 



Nat. of various parts of India. Is a large species, grows 

 on trees, with slowly creeping, broad, thick, fleshy, scaly- 

 tomentose shoots. 



Root creeping, short, fleshy, covered with a thick coat of 

 long, filiform, downy, scales. 



Fronds of two sorts ; viz. barren and fertile. Barren ses- 

 sile, cordate sinuate, smooth, except for numerous beauti- 

 fully reticulated veins. Fertile stand upon pretty long, half- 

 round, smooth somfewhat winged petioles, they are deeply 

 pinnatifid ; pinnce alternate, tapering, smooth, entire. 



