166 DAVALLTA. 



36. D. elata, S\v. ; caudex ? fronds 3-4-pinnate sub- 



coriaceojis glabrous, pinnae altcnuato-caudate, ultimate pin- 

 nules or segments ovato-lanccolate sub-obtuse ])innatifid 

 striated, segments inciso-senvate lower ones again pinnatifid, 

 sori in the axils of the serratures (/. e. with a tooth on the 

 outside) rather small upper half (or nearly so) free attenuated 

 forming a lip. (Tab. LV. k.)—Sw. Syn. Fil p. 131 and 344. 

 Schkuhr, Fil. i. 127, b. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 472. Wibelia 

 elata, Ber)th. In Schrad. Juurn. 1801, /a 122, t. 1,/. 2. Tri- 

 chomanes elatuni, Forst. Prodr. n. 474. Davallia epiphylla, 

 Forst. Prodr. n. 471. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 134 and 352. Willd. 

 Sp. PL V. 473. Schkuhr, Fil. t. 127, b. Trichomancs epi- 

 phyllum, Forsl. Prodr. n. 471. Wibelia multifida, Bernh. in 

 Schrad. Jo urn. L c.f. c, a, b. 



Hab. Otaheite, Forster, Menzies. Western Java, Blume. — In habit 

 closely allied to D. elegans, and like it striated or marked witli lines or 

 pseudo-veins between the veins : but the involucres are very different, and 

 well defined both by Bernhardi, who made a f,^enus of it, and by Swartz : 

 still none of the figures of Bernhardi or of Schkulir represent the true form 

 of the involucre. An examination of the Banksian herbarium has satisfied 

 me that the Trichomanes elalum and T. epiphi/llum are one and the same 

 species of Davallia. 



37. D. Fejeensis, Hook. ; caudex } frond coriaceous, 



AS it would appear deconipoundly pinnate, pinnae lanceolate 

 acuminate deeply pinnatifid the segments crecto-patent al- 

 most appressecl narrow linear simple or bifid, involucres li- 

 near sunk in the apices of the narrow elongated segments so 

 as to have a narrow wing on each side (no teeth). (Tab. 

 LV. D.) 



Hab. Nukalau island of the Fejee group, Barclay. — I have only seen a 

 small specimen (about thrice the size of the figure, tab. LV. D.) which is 

 in my own herbarium, and a still smaller one in that of Mr. J. Smith, yet 

 I cannot but look upon it as quite distinct from any other of this genus. 

 It is many times compound, the principal pinnae much — almost caudato — 

 acuminate, and all of them pinnatifid, with the long narrow segments point- 

 ing upwards (erecto-appressed), and sometimes a little dilated towards the 

 apex, so that they may be said to be linear-clavate; yet not sufficiently 

 to justify the species being placed in the group of " Odontosori" from all 

 of which the sori will at once distinguish it: they are among the longest and 

 narrowest of the genus. Probably the D. epiphylla of Blume is different, 

 for he says " tenuitate frondis ac serraturis quasi spinescentibus, facile a 

 Davallia elata, Sw. distinguilur." 



38. D. patem, Sw. ; " fronds ample triplicato-pinnate gla- 

 brous, pinna? and pinnules subalternate rather remote ovato- 

 oblong very acuminate, secondary ones below pinnatifid, 

 segments rather remote cuneato-linear obtuse serrulate, ser- 

 ratures bearing the sorus exserted bidentate (between the 



