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POLYBOTRYA OSMUNDACEA.
H um bo ldt a n d B o n p l a n d . H o o k e r . J. S m it h .
S p r e n g e l . K a u l f u s s . H ooker a n d B a u e r .
P e e . P r e s l .
P L A T E L X I . VOL . V I I .
Polyhotrya cylindrica. K iU L t'Ü S S . S rilE SG E L .
K ü s z e . j . S m i t h . P e e s l .
I ’ e e . S c h o t t . J I o o k e .
S c h o t t .
Polyh o trya—From the Greek, polys—mauy, and hoirys—a raceme.
A V E R Y handsome Fern.
A n evergreen stove species, with a scandent habit, climbing
more than twenty feet up trunks of trees.
Native of Brazil, St. Catharine Island, Jamaica, and South
America.
Intro d u c ed into the Iloyal Gardens, Kew, in 1843, having
been received from Mr. N . AVilson.
B a rren and fertile fronds different; the sterile ones, rising
from a dark , scaly, stout, creeping stem, being erect and
short-stalked. Fronds spreading, and four to six inches wide,
a lengthy triangula r form; edge toothed; glabrous, deep green,
and having much the appearance of a Polystichum.