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sori solitary in the sinuses, racliis margined, stipes tctraque- 

 tous glabrous." Jiliiinc Kn. Fd. Jac. p. 2.'37. 



Hal). Moliiccas, Bluuiv. — With this I am unacquainted. Blunic says 

 of it " hahitu maxinic siniilis DaiallicB yraviU." 



77. D. splendens, Bl. " frond bipinnatc nienibranaceous 

 and as well as the stipes glabrous, pinnae subopposite, ])in- 

 luiles cuneate at the base lower ones ovato-laneeolate aeunii- 

 nate pinnatifid upper ones confluent into a dentate acumen, 



segments oblong obtuse subserrate, sori V — Bl. En. 



Ft/. Jav. J). 234. 



Hah. Isle of Banda, Z^/mw*". — " Between D.adiantoides, Sw. (Divksonia 

 Plumieri, nohis) and D. arborescem, Willd. {Dicks. Pavuni, noh. supra 

 J). 7-1), diffeiing from the former by its obtuse laeinia?, and from the latter 

 by its caiidex not being arborescent;"' — The only Daral/ia tliat I am 

 acquainted with tliat can be likened to our Dicksotiia Plunueri,'\s Dav. 

 iiucqualis, Kze. and it is probable that the present and two preceding species 

 should be placed next them. 



Dubious Species of this Suhgenus. 



78. D. Brasi/iensis, liooV. — Microlepia Brasiliensis, Pz-es/, 

 Te/tt. Plerid. p. 125 {nume onhf) tab. 4, / 23. There is 

 little in the figure now quoted, which only gives a solitary 

 pinnule, to distinguish it from D. inaiqualis, of which a 

 pinnule is also represented on the same plate, Ji(/. 21. I 

 am not aware that the plant is anywhere described. 



79. D. Manilensis, Hook. — Microlepia Manilensis, Presl, 

 in Herb. Meyen, and in Tent. Pterid. p. 125 [iname only). 



80. D. hwnilis, Hook. — Microlepia humilis, Presl, Tent. 

 Pterid. p. 125 {name only). " Dicksonia humilis, Willd. 

 Herb. n. 20164." Of this and the preceding I am not 

 aware that any thing further than their names is anywhere 

 recorded. 



Subgeii. VIII. Cuneate. — Davallia § Otlontosoria, Pr. in part, 

 and § Colposoria, Pr. in part. Davallia (vera) J. Sm. in part. — 

 Sori transrerscli/ ot)luny, nearly of the same te.vture as the 

 frond, placed at the ape.v of a narrow segment and gene- 

 rally occupying the irhole breadth of that ape.v, so that, in 

 many, if the apex of the segment were altered in texture, 

 it would be considered a portion of" the involucre, and resem- 

 ble the fructification of a Lindsiva. — Ferns of the tropics, 

 or subextratropical, both of the Old and New World. Caude.v 

 creeping or none P Fronds coriaceous or submembranaceous, 

 sometimes herbaceous, often firm and dark brown in drying, 

 erect and unarmed, or scandent and spinous, generally much 

 decompound, the segments or divisions cuneate, mostly narrow 



