TAD CXLE 
DAVALLIA CONTIGU A. 
FILICES.—GvnzaTx. Br.  PorvropiACEE. Kaulf. | Ftuiczs verc. JWilld. 
Gzw. Cuag. DAP ALLLA, Sm. $ori subrotundi (vel in lineola verticali) margini plerumque 
approximati. Zmvolucrum superficiarium, ex apice ven; unice ortum, lateribus vel lata basi 
adnatum, exterius et verticaliter liberum. Zr. 
DAvALLIA contigua ; fronde stipitata simplici glabra pectinato-pinnatifida, laciniis linearibus integris 
vel subcrenatis, infimis brevissimis, soris solitariis vel paucis in apicem laciniarum. 
Davallia contigua. — Swartz. Syn. Fil. p.130. — JF'ilid. Sp. Pl. v.5. p. 465. Spreng. Syst. Peoet. 
v.4. p. 148. Blume Enum. Pl. Jav. v. 1. p. 230. : 
- Trichomanes contiguum. | * Forst. Prodr. 1. 463." 
Has. In Insulis Oceani Pacifici. Forster. In arboribus montium Jave. Blume. In Zeylonia. 
— Emerson, M.D. 
Caudex, ut videtur, brevis, fusco-squamosus, fibras nigras, ramosas emittens. 
Stipes vix unciam longus, superne laciniis brevissimis, decurrentibus subalatus. 
Frondes spithamzeze et ultra, rigidee, subcoriacese, circumscriptione lanceolatze, basi apiceque attenuatee, simplices, 
profunde pinnatifidze, laciniis patentibus linearibus vel lineari-oblongis, obtusis, apice nunc, raro, subcrenatis 
soriferis, infimis atque supremis brevissimis. Stipes Rachisque glabrze (fide Blumii, hirtellze). 
Sori parvi ad apicem laciniarum, plerumque, nostris exemplaribus, solitarii. 
Involucra ovalia, vel ovali-oblonga, nervum terminantia, coriacea, cucullata, apice dehiscentia. 
Capsule longe stipitate, sphaericse. 
Semina subrotunda, fusca. 
Fig. 1. Lacinia cum soro. f. 2. Involucri sectio. f. 9. Capsula. f 4. Semina:—magn. auct. 
Allied to D. Emersoni, figured at Tab. 105 of this work, but having much deeper and narrower 
laciniz to the frond, not entire at the base and the extremity, and furnished with à distinct stipes. 
For a long time it was supposed to be peculiar to the islands of the Pacific; but, recently, 
Dr. Blume has found it in Java, and Dr. Emerson, to whom we are indebted for the specimen 
here figured and described, in the Island of Ceylon. 
