TAB. X. 
Polypodium (Eupolyfodium) Sfrucei, Hook, 
Nanum, caudice brevi subfiliformi repente, stipitibus dense 
cffispitosis vix bilinearibus, frondibus membranaceis subun- 
ciam longis oblongo-subspathulatis obtusis indivisis in- 
tegerrimis utrinque marginibus stipitibusqne villis longis 
ferrugineis basi latioribus scariosis pilosis, costa gracili flex- 
uosa, venis obliquis remotis simplicibns apice clavatis intra 
marginem terminantibus, soris paucis in apieem 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- 
temus, 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, Phegopteris, of which, 
he has a separate “ Enumeratio,” of no less importance. 
Fig- Back and front view of a frond; magnified. 
Apex of a fertile frond -.—more magnified. 
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Cm, 2. t, io. 
