Davallia. | CXLYII. FILICES, 715 
under or ata little distance from the margin. Indusium from under 
the sorus either with the m aed adnate to the pe and forming with 
it a complete c enclosing the sorus, or att ached only by its 
broad = and either covering the sorus, or ee rt and open 
under 
The genus is widely spread over the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old 
World ending to the Mediterranean, with a few tro hen American species. Of 
the seven Australian species four have a wide range in the Old World, one is only in 
Norfolk Island and New Caledonia if —— distinct from the Mediterranean one, 
the two remaining are as far as known en 
Fronds ape a Indusium with adnate margins 
forming a complete cu 
Pinnules “oblong, sbtiuefy lobed. Indusium narrow- 
. 1. D. solida. 
ide lanceolate, acutely lobed. Indusium ovate. 
Pinnules marked with raised striæ . 2. D. elegans. 
Pinnules flat, the perte slightly depre sed . 3. D. pyzidata. 
Fronds cei Indusium attached Puy by its broad 
Fronds rarely above 3 in. long above the stipes. Indu- 
sium soos ae the sorus 4. D. pedata. 
Fronds large pret und. Indusium short and broad 
under the 5, D. dubia, 
ia; membrano Tni attached only by “its broad 
ase, short and broad unde 
apnd pinnae grein, 2 to “Ion 
nules 3 to 3 in. lo ong, broad Bs E upper 
Ulis ios . 6. D. spelunca. 
Secondary pin oblong, + } "to 1 in, lon ng. 
"Pinnules 
2 to 4 vem qos with 2 to 4 obovate obtuse lobes . 7. D. tripinnata. 
l. D. solida, Swartz; Hook. Spec. Filic, i. 163, t. 42, Syn. Filic. 
sium narrow-oblong, P Te long, the margins adnate, jue with 
the fand a complete cup or tube. —Bedd. Ferns Brit, Ind. t 
Queensland. Hummocky Island, Thozet. 
Also in the Malayan Archipelago and South Pacific Islands. 
pinnate the pinne often tapering into ong points. Pinnules lan 
late, th pm tifid, eoriaceous, smooth shi and = 
i i sma 
truncate or bidentate lobes or teeth. Indusium ovate, about i line 
ong and broad, the margins adnate a nd forming with the tube ^ com- 
plete cup, the number of these little-shining indusia uses contrast- 
ing with the darker frond.—R. Br. Prod. 157. 
