The Cryptogamous Plants of Dr. Roxburgh. 485 



Fructification in numerous dots over the back of the 

 pinnse. 



Capsules most numerous, each supported on a long slender 

 pedicel, subglobular, 4-5ths girt with a necklace-like elastic 

 ring, 1 -celled, 1-valved. 



Seeds most numerous, of a bright shining gold colour. 



9. P. excavatum. R. Icon. Roxb. 14, t. 97. 



Fronds all long-stiped, from simple to deeply pinnatifid; 

 lacinifB lanceolate, acute. Fructifications solitary, in two 

 rows of very large^ naked spots, lodged in deep concavities. 



Polypodium Indicum glabrum. Rumph. Amb. 6. t. 35. 

 f.2. 



Nat. of the Moluccas. Introduced into the Botanic Gar- 

 den in 1798, where it fructifies during the rains.* 



Root creeping horizontally under the surface of the earth, 

 about as thick as a stout rattan, with numerous, filiform, 

 ramous, hard fibres issuing from them, and penetrating deep 

 into the ground. 



Stipes straight, smooth, round, from 6 to 12 inches long. 

 Fronds barren and fertile alike, oblong, pinnatifid ; very 

 smooth on both sides ; from 12 to 18 inches long. Lacinice 

 ensiform or tongue-shaped, sometimes obtuse, sometimes 

 ointed ; sinuses rounded, margins most entire. 

 Fructifications in only two rows of naked, equally distant 

 etween the nerve and margin, distinct, rather remote, very 

 large, round spots, lodged in deep hollows ; which are equally 

 conspicuous on the upper surface of the frond as on the 

 under. 



Involucre none. 



Capsules pedicelled, 2-valved, girt, with a jointed elastic 

 ring. 



It has much the appearance of Polt/podimn quercifolium^ 

 ut differs from it in many respects. The most obvious are, 



* Common on Walls, Malacca. — W. G. 



