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segments or pinnules deeply notched into 5 or more truncato- dentate 
lobules, each lobule with 1—3 sori. — Davallia hirta, Kaulf. — Hook. Sp. 
Fil. I, 181. — Synops. Fil. p. a — ree onia Kaulfussiana, Gaud. in 
Bot. Freye. p. 368. — Hook. Sp. Fil. I, 
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The species is sain over 1s i Ce se eR Malaysia “New H ebrides, Viti, Japan aati 
2. M. Jamaicensis, Mée. — Stip. stramineous or brownish, stout, 
naked, glossy, 1'/2—2 ft. long. Frond flaccid, dark-green, glabrous, deltoid, 
2'/e—3 ft. long, open, an Rhachis faintly fibrillose. Lowest 
pinnae at distances of 4—5‘, oblong-lanceolate, often exceeding 2 ft. in 
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nules measuring 1‘ >< 1/3‘, ovate, ohvnne; suboblique, cut deeply into 
obovate inciso-crenate lobes. Veins Sinaaie: Sori very small, inside 
the margin, each at or near the base of a sinus. Invol. thin and whitish, 
quite low, often reniform with open sides, evanescent. Sporangia with 
articles. Spores globose, without any lines, pale, minutely pipe 
Cells of yest flexuose. — Davallia Famascenss ook. Sp. Fil 
— Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. p. 661. — Dicksonia flaccida, Hook. & Arn. in i 
fae | p- 108. — Davallia speluneae, Bak. in pieces Fil. p. 100 (as to 
the Hawaiian plant). 
Rare, found by me on the Waianae ye Oahu! and near Hilo, Hawaii! only. — 
The species occurs also in Cuba, Jamaic , New Gran ada and Brazil, and in tropical Aus- 
tralia. The et given character of ‘the in and would for itself 
alone suffice to distinguish the plant from Davallia net ) speluncae, Bak., which it 
resembles more distinctive charac re the s 
and spores, for Mettenius, in Fil. Hort. 103, 2 tributes to M. trichosticha, J 
» & of lune an elastic ring of 12 articles onl d smooth 3-lobed spores 
as in M. strigosa. The ben fern, dese der D. spelunc the Flora of 
Australia by Bentham, h ours, but not that of the Flora of Mauritius by Baker 
Fil, fee * Pobovodivides is in 7 Hooker"s s Sp. Fil, nor the Javanese M. trichosticha in 
3. aa oe Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 104, tab. 27, fig. 14. — Rhizome 
creeping, densely covered with short and stiff ferruginous fibrils which 
consist of a single row of cells, of two rows only at the base. Stip. 
ai ft. long, light brown, naked, glossy. Frond ovate-lanceolate, 
‘/2—I1'/2 ft. long, glabrous, chartaceous, brownish when dry, open, tr 
pinnate. Pinnae ovate- Jabntelate, ascending, the lowest 3—6/ long, 
Stipitate (2). Tertiary pinnules 1/4—1/2‘, rhomboidal in outline, cut to 
near the rhachis into 3—6 ascending narrow cuneate-oblong truncate 
ts, 1—t/s“ broad, one or more commonly incised at the apex. 
Veins inconspicuous, forking, generally one to a segment. but often 
vutely forking near the apex. Sori submarginal, one or two at the 
truncate apex of the segment, discreet or rarely confluent and then 
supported by two veinlets. vik dark and firm, half cup-shaped, shallow, 
