DAVALMA. 153 



** Fronds pinnatijid, the lower si'<jments bipinnatijid, rarely ]>innatcd. 



S. }).p(crallefu, Wall.; caudox creeping piil(;ac(!ous, fronds 

 stipitale coriaceous o\ ato-lanceolale acuminate deeply pinna- 

 tiiid nearly to the racliis, segments close parallel horizontally 

 patent linear or linear-t)blong subfalcate entire, the lowermost 

 pair sometimes with a solitary obtuse lobe at the base be- 

 neath rarely more, involucres semiorbicular copious marginal 

 but all )K)inting towards the apex of the segments in two close 

 parallel lines (not pointing towards the margins), veins thick- 

 ened sunk. (Tab. XLII. A.) — JVall. Cat. n. 251. — Nejdiro- 

 dium Gaimardianum, Gatul. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. t. 12,/". 1. — 

 &. fronds and segments narrower, all even the lowest pair of 

 segments destitute of lobe. Mumata pectinata, /. Sin. En. Fit. 

 Philip. I. c. not I Vail, and Hook. 



Hab. Singapore, Watlich, Titos. Lohb. Moluccas (Ravacli) and Sand- 

 wich Islands, Gnudiehaud. — ^. Luzon, CumUif/, n. 61. — A species undoubt- 

 edly nearly allied to the lollowing (D. pectinata), but distinct. The sliape 

 of the I'roud is less deltoid, it is not so deeply divided ; the segments closer 

 and more parallel, and tluse arc ([uite entire, except in the lowest ])air, 

 where there is generally a solitary lobe near the lower base of each. 'J'he 

 fructificatioiis are more copious and more compact, and the apex of the in- 

 volucres points to the extremity of the segments not to the margin. 



4. D. pectinata, Sm. ; caudex creeping ])aleaceous, fronds 

 stipitate coriaceous ovato-lauceolate subdeltoid deeply pin- 

 natifid nearly to the rachis below pinnated, segments or 

 pinna3 linear-oblong sub-lanceolate spreading crenate (rarely 

 entire) the inferior ones pinnatifid the lowest pair unequally 

 so the inferior lobes being the longest, involucres semiorbi- 

 cular a little distant one on the tooth of each crenature ob- 

 liquely inclined towards the margin. — Sm. Act. Taur. v. p. 

 414. &w. Syn. Fit. p. 130. IVilld. Sp. PL v. p. 465. • Hook, 

 et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 139. 



Hab. Otalieite, Nelson (in Herb. Banks.), Menzies (in Herb, nostr.) 

 Society Islands, Mathews, n. 24. Sir Thos. Niyhtimjale. Java, lihune. Isl- 

 and of Jobic, liarclujf. Coral Islands, Beeche;/. — Sir. I as. Smith gives the 

 East Indies as a locality, on the authority of Mr. llurlock ; but perhaps 

 erroneously, for I have never seen it from the continent of India, only from 

 the Pacific. 



5. D. alata, Bl. ; " frond linear-lanceolate pectinato-pin- 

 natifid sub]Hibescent beneath, segments linear obtuse entire 

 with dccurrent wings, sori niarginal, stipes short winged and 

 as well as the rachis subpubescent." Blitme, En. Fil. Jav. 

 p. 230. 



Hab. Fissures of rocks, Java, lilume. " Very closely allied to D.pecti- 

 nata, Sm., but different in the shorter laciuiae," Bl. — May it not be D. 

 jxirutlela, or a slight variety of it ? 



