y :
Pinna of mature Frond, under side.
POLYPODIUM LATIPES.
L a n g s d o r f f a n d F i s c h e r . K u n z e . L i n k .
P L A T E X X X IX . V O l,. n .
Goniophlehium latipes,
Ma rg in a ria latipes,
J - S m i t h . M o o r e a n d I I o u l s t o n .
P r e s l .
Polypodium—Voìypoàj. Xafa>es—Broad-footed.
I n t h e S e c t i o n G o n i o p h l e b i u m o f A u t h o r s .
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T h e r e are a num b e r of F erns very similar to each other as
garden plants, although, botanically speaking, distinct. Of these
we have figured and described Pohjpodium Catharince, P .
vacillans, and P . harpeodes. T here seems to be a little confusion
amongst botanists as regards these species, and perhaps the
p resent F e rn may n o t be distinct from P . Catharince.
An evergreen stove Fern.
Native of Brazil and St. Catharine.
Fro n d s pinnatifid, alternate, glabrous, somewhat slender and
pendulous, and in this respect differ from the species above
refe rred to; lateral, and articulated on a green, creeping
rhizoma, covered with peltate, fimbriated, brown scales; pinnules
linear-oblong, membranous, somewhat obtuse, u ndulated, and
repand.
Sori small and biserial; yellowish in colour.