Plate 60. 
POLYSTICHUM ADIANTIFOBME. 
Class, FiLiOES : — Ferns, no true flowers. 
Genus, Polystichum : — Fertile and sterile fronds similar. Veins all 
free, texture usually more or less coriaceous, segments toothed. 
Sori round, bursting transversely. Indusium heart- or kidney- 
shaped. 
Polystichum adiantiforme, J. Sm. Plant up to 2 ft. 
high. Stem stout, shining, naked. Frond 2-12 in. long, 
roughly triangular in outline, brilliant glossy green, once divided, 
sometimes more in lower leaflets, leaflets and segments narrow, 
the former usually about 3 or 4 in. long and 2 in. broad, the 
latter blunt at apex. Sori in. broad, in 2 rows, filling nearly 
all space on leaf. 
Sheltered creeks. Very rare. 
West Falklands. 
