158 DAVAI.I.IA. 



rather large, stipes a little scaly l)clo\v and rising from a very 

 scalv gemma, all the scales oval obtuse. (Tau, LI. A.) — 

 Wall. Cat. >i. 259. D. ligulata, IFalL MSS. in Herb. Hook. 

 Lcncostegia ligulata, J. Sm. 



Hal). Nortliern India, Nepal, Wallich. Maainloo, Khasiya &c. Griffith. 

 Masiiri, Mr. Edgeworth. Simla, Ladif Dalhousie, (Fielding). Assam, Mrs. 

 Mack, Major Jenkins. — Caudex remarliable for the olituse imbricated 

 scales, which also extend to the stipes on the lower part. Stipes 6 — 8 

 inches high. Frond 1 — 2 feet, generally pale green. 



18. D. affinis, Hook. ; caudex creeping thick clothed with 

 long narrow subulate scales, fronds ample tall ovato-lanceo- 

 late membranaceous 3- 4-pinnatc or supradecompound, pri- 

 mary pinnae petiolate ovato-lanceolatc acuminate, secondary 

 petiolatc oblong-ovate, pinnules ovate deeply i)innatifid, the 

 segments ovate acute subfalcate entire or generally (the fer- 

 tile ones) with a tooth on the inner margin, involucres small 

 hemispherical or subreniform })laced near the centre of a seg- 

 ment below the sinus of the tooth, (veins slender black). 

 (Tab. Lll. B.) Leucostegia affmis, J. Sm. En. Fit. Philipp. 

 I. c. (name only). 



Hah. Luzon, Cuming, n. 215, and n. 117. Ceylon, Mrs. Genl. Walker, 

 apparently abundant. Penang, Z-(u/v Dalhousie. Java, Mr. 3Iillett. — An 

 extremely handsome species, with more ample fronds (2 — 3 feet high), and 

 more copiously divided than the preceding, of a very membranous but ra- 

 ther firm texture, darker colour, and with a slender black vein in the seg- 

 ments. Probably in naming this Leucostegia affinis, ]Mr. J. Smith had in 

 mind our Davallia chcerophi/lla , Wall., which is its nearest affinity, but be- 

 sides the differences just mentioned, the scales of the caudex and of the 

 lower part of the stipes are of a totally different character, 



19. D. Nov(B Zelandice, Col.; caudex creeping slender 

 hairy as the lower part of the caudex and the axils of the pri- 

 mary pinna; with soft copious jointed ferruginous hairs, fronds 

 rather tall ovate acuminate tri])innate membranaceous but 

 rather rigid, divisions all rather distant, ultimate pinnules 

 lanceolate deeply pinnatifid, ])innules ovato-lanceolate falcate 

 cusjudato-acute entire or with one or two teeth, fructifications 

 rather large upon the lateral tooth rarely in a sinus, involu- 

 cres subreniform at length reflexed iVom the enlargement of 

 the sorus, rachis flcxuose. (Tab. LI. B.) — Colenso in Tasm. 

 Journ. of Nat. Sc. — Hook. Fil. in Lond. Journ. of Bot. iii. 

 p. 418. D. hispida, Hew. MSS. 



Hab. New Zealand, northern island, A. Cunningham, in Herb. Heivard. 

 n. 214. Both upon the coast and in the interior, Mr. Colenso, n. 50, Ste- 

 phenson, n. 121. — Quite distiuct from any other Davallia, but allied to D, 

 cJicRrophylla, Wall, aud to the preceding, D. affinis, J. Sm., in size most 

 resembling the former one. Caudex slender, creeping, hairy or almost to- 



