184 DAVALLIA. 



Hab. Isle of Samar, Cuming, n. 328. — Allied in some respects to D. 

 polypodioides, especially to the larger state of it, var. rhomboidea ; but the 

 only specimens I have seen are less compoundly divided, the pinns are 

 more regularly piunatifid, and there is a compactness in the downy clothing 

 beneath (almost pnlverulcnt) covering the whole underside of the frond, 

 different from what I have observed in any allied species. 



74. D. ci/iata, Hook. ; caudex creeping crinite, frond 

 ovato-lanceolate very flaccid membranaceous liairy especially 

 on the veins (hairs soft silky), pinnate, pinnae from a broad 

 base oblong acuminate bipinnatifid, primary segments oblong 

 obtuse separated from each other almost to the rachis, ulti- 

 mate ones ovate subfalcate very acute ciliated entire or with 

 one or two minute teeth, sori small at a distance from the 

 margin almost in the centre of a segment, involucres small 

 half-cup-shaped ciliated, stipes and main rachis (which is 

 rigid) pubescent with short brown hairs. (Tab. LX. A.) — 

 Leucostegia hirsuta, J. Sm. En. Fil. Philipp. I. c. name 

 only, {not Davallia hirsuta, Sw.) 



Hab. Luzon, Cuming, n. 174. — An elegant and well marked species, yet 

 the involucre is not that of Leucostegia, but of the Microlepia group, with 

 which the plant quite accords in habit. The caudex is creeping, about the 

 thickness of a duck's quill, clothed with long crinite hairs. Stipes about 

 a span long, brown, with short pubescence, which extends to the main 

 rachis. Frond H to 2 feet long, broad or ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 first pinnated, with the pinnae twice piunatifid in a very^ regular and beau- 

 tiful manner; the veins are clothed, and the margin and involucre are 

 fringed, with very slender soft hairs. 



75. ? D. gracilis, Bl. ; " frond bipinuate below, above sim- 

 ply pinnate, pinna) lanceolate very much acuminate, pinnules 

 linear rather obtuse subserrulate decurrent glabrous, sori sub- 

 marginal, stipes tetraquetrous hairy at the base, above as well 

 as the rachis glabrous. — Var. B. pinnules elongato-linear." 

 Bin me En. Fil. Java, p. 233. Microlepia gracilis, J. Sm. 

 Gen. Fil. I. c. 



Hab. Woods in mountain-places, Java, Blume. — "Its place," Blume 

 observes, " is between Dav. adiantoidex, Sw. (which is our Dicksonia Flu- 

 mieri) and Dav. platyphylla, Don, (D. /o?icA»<jrfert, Wall, and this work)." — 

 From what may be considered an authentic specimen of this species, in 

 Mr. J. Smith's Herbarium, received from Reinwardt, it would appear that 

 it is identical with our D. Luzonica {supra p, 174, Tab. LX. B. /. 2. 3. 5): 

 yet that plant is not bipinnale, but pinnate with the pinnae piunatifid, and 

 is surely not naturally allied to the plants indicated by Dr. Blume, but 

 rather to D. pinnata, of which it is to be feared it may prove only a more 

 divided form. 



76. D. Moluccana, Bl. (not Roxb.) ; "frond below tripli- 

 cato-pinnate above bipinnate membranaceous glabrous, pin- 

 nae subalternate ovato-lanceolate, pinnules cuneato-lanceolate 

 rather obtuse decurrent sub})innatifid, segments obtuse entire. 



