TAB. X 
Polypodium (Eupolyfodium) Sfrucei^ Hook . 
Nanum, caudice brevi subfillformi repente, stipitibus dense 
csespitosis vix bilinearibus^ frondibus membranaceis subun- 
ciam longls oblongo-subspatbulatis obtusis indivisis in- 
tegerrimls utrinque marginibus stipitibnsqne villis longis 
ferrugineis basi latiorlbus scariosis pilosis, costa gracili fleX” 
- uosa, venis obliquis remotis simplicibus apice clavatis intra 
margin em terminantibus, soris panels in apicem venarum 
superiorum globosis. 
Hab. Near Tarapota^ Eastern Peru, Spruce, n. 4746. 
I do not find, anywhere described, a species which will agree 
with this ; notwithstanding, the valuable Enumeratio Speci- 
erum ” of the Genus Polypodium, lately published by Met- 
tenius, in which he enumerates 268 species : but, in so doing 
he considers Polypodium in its more extended, or I may say, 
Willdenovian sense; omitting, however, of which, 
he has a separate Enumeratio,” of no less importance. 
Fig, 1, Back and front view of a frond; magnified, f, 2. 
Apex of a fertile frond : — more magnified. 
Cbnx. 2, T, 10, 
