POLYPODIUM OAVARIENSE.
D e s v a u x . K ü n z e .
P L A T E L X I I . V O L . I I .
Goniophlehium Owarense,
Polypodium ovariense,
L o d d ig e s ’ C a t a l o g u e .
S p r e n g e l .
P o lypodium—Polypody, Oioariense— Owiii'iiin.
I n t h e S e c t i o n G o n i o p h l e i u u m o f A u t h o r s .
Polypodium Owariense is only to be met with in our largest
collections; it is a diminutive pre tty F e rn , and is an attractive
object when well cultivated. Air. J . Henderson, of Wentworth,
has some fine specimens.
An evergreen stove species.
N a tiv e of Sierra Leone and Guinea.
In tro d u c ed into this country in the year 1849.
F ro n d s simple, sessile, very smooth, and subcoriaceous. A'eins
parallel. Sterile fronds obovate-elliptic, and repand. F e rtile
fronds linear-lanceolate, very bluntly undulated.
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