468 PAVALLIA. 



lobes, with mostly a horn beyond ; inv. as broad as deep. Acrophorus assa- 

 micus, Bedd. F. B. 1. 1. 94. D. micans, Mett. 



Hab. Bootan, Griffith, 2790. 



22*. D. dubia, R. Br. ; fr. ample, deltoid, 4-pinnatifid ; rachises stramineous, 

 glabrous or slightly downy ; pinnae oblong-lanceolate, 1 ft. or more L, 2-4 in. br. ; 

 pinnl. close, lanceolate, stalked, cuneate-truncate on lower side at base, with close 

 oblong sessile segm., the lower pinnatifid, upper entire ; texture rigidly subcori- 

 aceous ; surfaces green, glabrous, or lower slightly downy ; venules erecto-patent, 

 simple or forked ; sori minute, one to each final lobe, terminal, or with a horn 

 beyond. Dicksonia dubia, Gaud., Hk. Sp. Fil. 1. p. 71. t. 24. C. Balantium 

 Brownianum, PrcsL 



Hab. Australia. See Carruth. Fl. Vit. p. 335. 



23*. D. setosa, Baker ; caud. erect ; st. -1 ft., grey-stramineous, with a few 

 linear scales ;fr. deltoid, 1-2 ft. 1., 4-pinnatifid ;pinnce patent, subdistant, lanceolate, 

 lowest largest, 6-8 in. L, 1^-3 in. br. ; pinnl. subsessile, patent, close, lanceolate ; 

 segm. close, sessile, oblong, blunt, lowest deeply pinnatifid ; texture membranous ; 

 both sides green, with scattered subulate scales ; veining regularly pinnate ; sori 

 one to each final lower lobe ; inv. minute, oblong, membranous, fugacious. 

 Cystopteris setosa, Bedd. F. B. 1. 1. 312. Lastrea, Bedd. F. B. 1. 1. 262. 



Hab. East Himalayas and Moulmein. 



25*. D. brachypoda, Baker ; st. subtufted, naked, castaneo-stramineous, - 

 in. ; fr. ligulate, 1-1^ in. L, 3-4 lin. br., simply pinnate ; pinnae. 9-10-jugate, 

 close, minutely stalked, rhomboid-flabellate, in. br., the lower edge ascending, 

 entire, the upper faintly lobed ; texture membranous ; surfaces bright-green, 

 naked ; veins distant, free, 4-5 to a pinna ; sori marginal, sometimes connecting 

 two veins ; inv. rather broader than deep. 



Hab. Banks of the Gilbert, North Australia, Daintree; sent by Baron von Mueller. 



26*. D. stolonifera, Baker rhizome wiry, wide-creeping ; scales minute, brown, 

 lanceolate ; st. 2-4 in., distant, stramineous ; fr. ligulate, simply pinnate, 4-10 

 in. L, 1-1 in. br. ; pinnae 3-4 lin. br., close, subpetiolate, rhomboid, lower edge 

 entire, more or less ascending, upper lobed \-^ down ; texture membranous ; 

 colour dark-green ; veins distant, copiously anastomosing ; sori at tip of lobes, 

 linear-reniform, 4-6 to a pinna. Lindsaya stolonifera, Mett. Ktihn, Linn. 36. 

 p. 81. Synaphlebium pulchrum, Brack. 



Hab. Aneiteum, Samoa, Viti. 



30*. D. schizophylla, Baker ; rhizome wiry, wide-creeping ; scales minute, brown, 

 linear-subulate, secund ; st. 4-1 ft., stramineous, naked ; fr. rhomboid, ft. 1., 

 tripinnatifid ; pinnce few, lanceolate, ascending, lowest the largest ; pinnl. subpeti- 

 olate, square, \ in. br., cut down from outer and upper edge to rachis into 6-8 

 ligulate-cuneate segm. -J in. L, -J- lin. br. ; texture chartaceous ; surfaces bright- 

 green, naked ; sori terminal on dilated denticulate tip of segm. ; inv. intramur- 

 ginal, 1-2, as broad as long. D. trichomanoides, Beddomc, F. B. 1. 1. 178. non 

 Blume. 



Hab. Ceylon, Thwaites, O. P. 3903. Dr. Thwaites regards this as an abnormal form 

 of Lindsaya flabellulata, var. tenera. 



32. D. contigua, var. D. Blumci, Mett. ; sori slightly intrainarginal. D. pec- 

 tinata, Blume, non Sni. 



Ilab. Java, Blume. 



