TAB. LI 



DAN^A ELLIPTICA 



FILICES. 



Ma 



UATTIEJE. 



ory 



MARATTIACEiE. Kaulf PoilOPTERIDES. Wllld 



Ge 



C 



DANJEA 



m 



- 



Sori lineares, dorsales 



p ar alleli . Capsulee 



senes 



geminatas arcte connatae, superne poro dehis 

 (Asplenii Sp. Linn.) 



Indusium superficiarium soros cingen 



Dan^a elliptica ; fronde pinnata, rachi nodosa vix alata, pinnis breviter petiolatis elliptico-oblongis 



acuminatis subintegerrimis basi oblique acutis, fertilibus oblongo-lanceolatis. 



Danaea elliptica. Smith in Rees Cycl. 



Filix major, &c. Sloanes Jamaica, t. A\.f. 1. 



Hab. India Occidentali. Jamaica. Sloane. Smith. Insula Sancti Vincentii. Rev. L. Guildin*. 



Stipes vix pedalis, dorso convexus, facie superna canaliculatus, infra frondem nodosus, pubescens, demum glaber. 

 Frondes pedales et ultra, erectae, circumscriptione ovatae, pinnatae, pinnis inferioribus exacte oppositis, superioribus 



nunc subalternis : plantce sterilis semipedalibus, duas uncias latis, ell iptico-oblongis, acuminatis, subundulato- 



crenatis, sed 



basi inaequaliter acutis, in petiolum brevem attenuatis, glabris, opacis, luride 



dibus, subtus pallidioribus, costatis, costa subtus hic et illic fasciculato-pubescentibus, parallel 



venis 



numerosis transversalibus basi furcatis 



Rachis ad insertionem pinnarum nodosa. Plantae fertilis, pinnce 



oblongo-lanceolatae, sterilibus minores, basi apiceque acutae. 

 Fructificatio omnino ut in D. alata (Tab. XVIIL). 

 Fig. 1. Sorus. f. 2. Semina: — magn. auct. 



Our friend Mr. Guilding, who seems to live surrounded by the noblest of the tropical Ferns, 

 marked this fine species of Daneea as distinct both from D. alata and D. nodosa. With the latter, 

 indeed, there is no danger of its being confounded ; and Sir James Smith, who certainly appears to 

 have had the same plant in view, in describing his D. elliptica, well observes, that the greater breadth 

 of the pinnae and their being acute, not cordate, at the base, will afford the distinguishing charac- 

 ters. This greater proportionate breadth exists in the fertile as well as the barren pinnae, and even 

 in the fronds, so as to give a character to the plant at first view. Sloane's figure is very characteristic 

 for the barren frond. 





