FERNS 



DAVALLIA FEEEUGINEA, Desv. 



Baker in Gard. Chroii. 1887, vol. i. p. 639. 



Described from specimens collected in Madagascar by Curtis, through 

 whom it was introduced to cultivation, this large sarmentose stove species 

 has decompound fronds and sessile crowded ultimate segments. 



DAVALLIA FIJIENSIS, Hook., var. MAJOE, Hort. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1879, p. 24. 



An elegant fern, a native of the Fiji Archipelago, sent by the late 

 Charles Moore, Esq., one time of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, N.S.W. 



A stove species with slender stipes, gracefully arching fronds, the 

 pinnules finely cut and of a very bright green. 



DAVALLIA HIETA, Kaulfuss, var. CEISTATA. 



Syns. Microlepia hirta, var. cristata. 

 Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1878, p. 24, fig. p. 14. 



A crested form of Davallia hirta, from the New Hebrides in the South 

 Pacific Ocean by Captain Hoskins, of the same dwarf habit as the type, 

 but the frond apices and the pinnse are bi- or tri-furcate. 



DAVALLIA INTEEMEDIA, Hort. 



Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. xxv. p. 31 (Report of R.H.S. Floral Committee) ; Veitchs' Catlg. 



of PI. 1889, p. 5. 



A supposed hybrid between Davallia Mooreana (D. pallida) and D. 

 decora, raised from prothallium produced in a pan in which the spores of 

 the two species had been sown. 



D. intermedia shows clearly the characteristics of the two supposed 

 parents. 



The plant of free growth, of elegant aspect, is very suitable for 

 suspended baskets in the warm conservatory. 



DAVALLIA PALLIDA, Mett. 



Syns. D. Mooreana, Mast. 



Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 964, with fig. ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1870, p. 20, fig. p. 9 ; 

 Fl. and Pom. 1872, p. 21, figs. 



A native of Borneo, whence it was introduced through Thomas Lobb, 

 this Davallia, one of the most beautiful of the genus, is remarkable for a 

 graceful habit, a large size combined with a small sub-division, pale green 

 colour, a smooth surface and bullate sori. 



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