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and not uiifrcqucntly Ibimd in our liugliah collections under
the name of Pohjpoditim coriaceum, yet very diiferent from the
spccics figured on Plato X X X V I., and which appears to be
the true plant of 'Willdenow.
An evergreen stove species.
Native of the Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, Jamaica,
Brazil, Clnli, New Holland, and New Zealand.
Fronds glabrous, deltoid, tripinnate; pinnules oblong-hinceo-
late-acute, pinnatifid, wedge-shaped at the base, and have obtuse
dentate segments.
Fronds lateral, adherent to a decumbent, stout, densely scaly,
cosspitose rhizoma.
Length of frond from thirty to forty inches; colour deep green.
Sori large. Indusium reniform.
Introduced into the Eoyal Gardens, Kew, in 1823, by Mr.
J. Bowie.
My thanks are due to Captain Legard, of Kirby Misperton,
Yorkshire, and to Mrs. Delves, of Tunbridge Wells, for plants
of this species.
I t is in the Catalogues of Messrs. Sim, of Foot’s Cray; E. G.
Henderson, of St. Jo h n ’s Wood; Eollisson, of Tooting; A.
Henderson, of Pine-apple Place; Veitch, Jun., of Chelsea;
Cooling, of Derby; Booth and Son, of Hamburg; Masters, of
Canterbury; Kennedy, of Covent Garden; and Stansfield, of
Todmorden.
The illustration is from a plant in my own collection.
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