Ferns: British and . POLYPODIUM , Pinna of mature Frond—^nnder side. POLTPODIUM CUSPIDATUM. Don. Kunze. Sprengel. {not Blume or Presl.) PLATE XXV. VOL. II. Phymatodes cusjpidata,I*olypodium leiorhizum,Phymatodes leiorhiza,Drynaria leiorhiza^Pleojpeltis cusj)idata. J. Smith. Wallich. Kunze. Peesl. J. Smith. Mooee & Hottlston. MOOEE. Polypodium—Polypody. CtiSpidatum—Pointed. In the Section Drynaria of Authors. A handsome Fern, with an extraordinary large, creeping,smooth, spotted, snake-like rhizoma, and smooth, shining fronds. An evergreen stove species. Native of
Ferns: British and . POLYPODIUM , Pinna of mature Frond—^nnder side. POLTPODIUM CUSPIDATUM. Don. Kunze. Sprengel. {not Blume or Presl.) PLATE XXV. VOL. II. Phymatodes cusjpidata,I*olypodium leiorhizum,Phymatodes leiorhiza,Drynaria leiorhiza^Pleojpeltis cusj)idata. J. Smith. Wallich. Kunze. Peesl. J. Smith. Mooee & Hottlston. MOOEE. Polypodium—Polypody. CtiSpidatum—Pointed. In the Section Drynaria of Authors. A handsome Fern, with an extraordinary large, creeping,smooth, spotted, snake-like rhizoma, and smooth, shining fronds. An evergreen stove species. Native of the East Indies,—Nepal. Fronds glabrous, pinnate, the pinnse lanceolate-acuminate,ending in a very fine point; the inferior pinnje petiolatc, butthe upper ones adnate and decurrent; about twenty pairs ofpinna? on each frond. Length of frond from twenty-four to forty-four inches; colourVOL. II. H 54 rOLYPODTUM CUSPIDATUM. bright shining green; length of pinnse from six to eight inches. Sori circular, uniserial, at first minute and white, eventually
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