716 CXLVII. FILICES. [ Davallia. 
Queensland. Endeavour River, Banks and Solander, A. Cunningham ; York 
Peninsu nie , N. Taylor ; Rockingham and Clevela a Rege W.H. ill, Dallachy, Bowman ; 
Fitzroy Island, Walter ; - Rockhampton, O Shane 
Widely spread over tropical Asia and Africa. 
3. D. pyxidata, C4v.; Hook. Spec. Filie. i. 169, t, 55, Syn. Filie. 
96.—Rhizome thick, densely covered with soft scales. Fronds usually 
under 1 ft. long and nearly as broad, on a stipes half as long, twice or 
thrice pinnate. Pinnules coriaceous smooth and shining, the lobes and 
segments shorter and broader than in D. elegans, without the raised 
striae of that species, the veins slightly a deae. Sori on the lobes or 
teeth. Iudusium ovate, sometim s broad as in JD. elegans, 
but more frequently rather narrower, the margins SOME, when young 
almost immersed in the frond.—R. Br. Prod. 157. 
Queensland, Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller and others; Rockhamp-- 
ton ery neighbouring districts, Dallachy, Thozet, Q' Shanesy ; Rockingham Day, 
— 
s. Wales. rus Jackson to m E bee are ae R. Brown, Sieber, Fl. 
Mise 240, A. Cunningham and others; New England, C. Stuart; Richmond 
Tre Mrs. Tikini 7 ; Hastings ai Macleay River, Beckler ; ; lllawarra, 
Johns 
Also in Norfolk Island, and New Caledonia, and scarcely » a distinguished from 
the well-known D. canariensis ofthe West Mediterranean reg 
4. D. pedata, Sm.; Hook. Spec. ir i. 154, t. 45, Gard. Ferns, t. 7, 
de aan 89. — Rhizome scaly, often very long. Fronds ovate-trian- 
, l; to 3 in rud on a stipes usually as slong or soe coriaceous, 
or scarcely crenate, obtuse or truncate. Sori at the base of the 
erenatures at the end or upper half of the segments. Indusium nearly 
orbicular, rather above 4 line diameter, closely appressed and covering 
the sorus but attached es «d the broad base.—AHumata pedata, J. 
Sm. ; Bedd. Ferns S. Ind. t 
Queensland. Cape rok Peninsula, XN. Taylor; Rockingham Bay, W. Hill, 
Dallachy ; Bowen, Woolls 
Also in tropical Asia and the Mascarene Islands. 
. D. dubia, R. Br. Prod. 157.—Fronds large, resembling those 
of Didona d. rvallioides but more rigid, twice or thrice pinnate. 
i i we 
E sd ues independent of them. Indusium d t 
tee road and very short, attached em by the broad base a 
> ici. without any trace of the upper valve or complete ring of Dick- 
E ia.— Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. 433; Sie», Filic. Ers. n, 111, Fl. 
