’ ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 103 
DAVALLIA MARIESII Moore 
POLY PODIACEZ 
DAVALLIA MARIESIT Moore ex Baker, Ann. Bot. 5: 201 (1891); C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 212 
(1905): Nakai, Bot. Mag. Tokio 39: 120 (1925). 
Davallia bullata Franch. et Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. 2: 208 (1877); Christ in Warburg, Monsunia 1: 
86 (1900). ; 
Rhizome thick, 7 mm across, long-creeping, densely scaly; scales large, im- 
bricate, lanceolate from broadly ovate base, fimbriate, ferruginous on the growing 
tip, but whitish on the old part; frond far apart, articulated at base, stipe 6-10 cm 
long, straminous, naked, terete underneath, grooved on the upper side, lamina 
deltoid-pentagonous, 8-14 cm long and broad, shortly acuminate, tripinnate; ponnx 
6-7-jugate, rather shortly petiolate, the basal ones much the largest, deltoid, 5-7 
cm long and broad; pinnules 6-7-jugate, shortly petiolulate on narrowly winged 
rahilet, the lower basal ones the largest, oblong-ovate, 2.5-4 cm long, 1-1.5 cm 
broad, ovate-oblong, base cuneate-decurrent, deeply pinnatifid into 5 linear, blunt 
or bifid uni-nerved segments; tewtwre coriaceous, glabrous on both sides; indusiwm 
brown, tubular, coriaceous, twice as long as broad, overtopped by two horns of 
generally unequal length. 
Shantung: Chefoo mountains, Faber 58; Carles (1888); R. Zimmermann 545, 
May 5, 1902; Maingay 5 (1862); Hancock 5; Tsingtau, Lao Shan, F’. H. Sha 528 in 
herb. Shantung Univ., July 18, 1932; Yuchiaho, Mooping, 7. N. Liou 905, May 27, 
1930. Kiangsu: Haichow, Hai-shan, Jacob 7, 86, 890. 
Japan: Ex Hort. Veitch (type); Nagasaki, Mawimowicz 116 (1863). 
Corea: Taguet 2330; Soul, Warburg. 
Formosa: Hancock 115, 119. 
This fern is a native of the northeastern Asia and a close relative of D. bullata 
Wall. of Eastern India, which differs, however, in larger and less divided frond, 
shorter, rufo-brown and very shaggy scales with scarious margin and in more 
shortly petiolate basal pinne. The difference in the scale between this and the 
Indian species was first noted by Moore himself, as shown by an enlarged sketch 
on the type sheet in the herbarium at Kew. 
Plate 103. Fig. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. Ultimate pinnule, showing venation and 
shape of indusium (x 10). 3. Scale from thizome (x 10). 
