194 DAVALLIA. 



obtuse curved thick coriaceous glabrous above, beneath with 

 scattered bro\vn scales, more or less deeply pinnato-pinnati- 

 fid, pinncc alternate patent ovate cuneate at the base, seg- 

 ments linear-spathulatc curved bordered, the margin thick- 

 ened reflexed retuse bi- or trifid, sori and involucres large 

 semiorbicular, rachis flattened costate margined, stipes short 

 ascending, caudcx creeping densely clothed with brown rigid 

 scales." Kze. — " ScJirad. Fil. Cap. in Goett. Gel. Anz. 1818, 

 n. 92, p. 918, not Presl.'"* Kze. Emend, ad Acotyl. Afr. 

 Ausfr. in Linnaia, xiii. p. 152, et in Schk. Fit. Siippl. p. 75, 

 t. 37. D. carapyloptera, Kze. Acot. Afr. in Linnaa, x. 544. 

 Hab. Interior of South Africa, Drege, Krauss, n. 742. — With this spe- 

 cies I am not acquainted, and I am probably wrong in referring it to this 

 subgenus : but I am induced to do so from the circumstance of Schimper 

 having considered his plant, just described {D. Schimperi, nobis), to be a 

 large state of it. It has not the habit, nor apparently the fructification, of 

 this group. 



Species of the Genus altogether doubtful. 



104. D. glatica, Cav. ; " leaves tripinnate, pinnules alter- 

 nate glaucous, pinnules linear pinnatifid acute." Cav. Pral. 

 1801, n. 693. Sw. St/n. FiL 134. Willd. Sp. PL v. 474. 



Hab. Alps, Peru (Cavanilles). Probably not of this genus. 



105. D. hirsuta, Sw. ; " fronds subbipinnate pubescent, 

 pinnules coadunate lanceolato-falcate crenated towards the 

 apex." Sw. Sijn. Fil. p. 131 et £43. Willd. Sp. PL v. 469. 

 Trichomanes hirsutum, TJtunh. Jap. 339, [non Linn.) 



Hab. Japan, Thunberg. 



106. D. Magellanica, " Desv. ; frond glabrous, pinnules 

 oblong lower ones sinuato-pinnatifid, upper ones toothed at 

 the apex, sori scattered." Spr. Syst. Veget. iv. 120. 



Hab. Magalhaens, (Desvaux). — A very unlikely country for any true 

 Davallia. 



107. D. jJellucida, Desv.; "pinnae and pinnules acute, 

 pinnules decurrently pinnate, ultimate pinnides glabrous 

 ovato-oblong deeply toothed at their apex, teeth somewhat 

 subulato-setaceous, rachis distantly divided, stipes glabrous." 

 Desv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Par. ii. 346. 



(D. ? lohata, Desv. is the Lindscea lohata of Poiret, of the 

 genus of which Desvaux seems to be doubtful. — With such 

 names the present catalogue of dubious species might be in- 

 creased ad injinitum). 



•* Which is Dicksonia (Patania) concinna, supra, p. 74. 



