IS. DAVALLIA, §§§ ODONTOLOMA. 93 



* Fronds not branched. Sp. 2o-27. 



25. D. (OJont.) hi/menophi/lloides. Baker; rhizome wide-creeping, slender, scan- 

 dent, paleaceous ; fr. sul)sessile, simply pinnate, 4-G in. 1., about | in. br. ; pinnce 

 1^-2 lln. deep, cut down into narrow simple or forked linear segments to a nearly- 

 straight raclus ; texture thinly herbaceous, both surfaces naked ; sori subrotund. 

 — Lindstea, Blnine, Enum. Fil. Jav.p, 218. 



Hab. Java and New Caledonia. — Is probably a variety of 27 with deeply laciniated 

 pinnae. 



20. D, (Odont.) piilchella, Hk. ; rhizome slender, wide-creeping, and much 

 branched ; st. slender, wiry, erect, naked, 2-3 in. 1. ; fr. 4-12 in. 1., ^-| in. br. ; 

 pinnce slightly stalked, about ^ in. across, ^ in. deep, the lower margin more 

 or less curved upwards, oblique at the base, the upper cut into 2 to 4 blunt 

 lobes ; texture herbaceous, rachis and both surfaces naked ; sori small, placed 

 in the lobes at a short distance from the edge ; veins sometimes anastomosing 

 at the ajjex, and then their sori i^ecome confluent. — Hk. Sp. 1. p. 177. t. 548. 

 Synaphlebium Pickeringii, Brack, p. 223. t. 30. _fig. 2. 



Hab. Philippine Islands, Fiji, and Samoa. — First published by Blume as Aspidium 

 zdiantoides. 



27. D. (Odont.) repcns, Desv. ; rhizome wide-ci-eeping, paleaceous, climbing ; 

 fr. simply pinnate, 8-18 in. I., ^-1^ in. br. ; pinnce ^-\ in. 1., about half as broad 

 as deep, the lower line slightly curved, oblique at the base, the upper rounded, 

 nearly entire or crenately lobed ; texture pellucido-herbaceous ; sori marginal, 

 large, about as broad as deep, often confluent in the not crenated form. — D. 

 Boryana, Presl, Hk. Sp. 1. p. 175. D. hemiptera, Bori/, Hk. Sp. 1. p. 176. 



Hab. Assam, Neilgherries, Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Polynesian Islands, and Mauritius. 

 — Very variable in size. Quite doubtful between Odontoloma and Lindsaya, and perhaps 

 not distinct from L. obloncjifolia. 



** Fronds more or less branched. Sp. 28-30. 



28. D. (Odont.) Parkeri, Hk. ; rhizome slender, creeping ; st. flexnose, wiry, 

 naked, 2-G in. 1.; /;■. simple or branched, with one or two pairs of lateral pinnce; 

 the main fr. 4-0 in. 1., about | in. br. ; pinnl. a quarter of a circle, al)out ^ in. 

 br., J in. deep, the outer edge slightly crenate ; texture herbaceous, both surfaces 

 naked ; sori small, submarginal; invol. rather broader than deep. — Hk. Sp. \. p. 

 176. t. 53. 



Hab. British Guiana. — Like 0. pulchella, but the rachis branched. 



29. D. (Odont.) triqiietra. Baker; rhizome creeping, fibrillose; st. strong, erect, 

 4-6 in. 1. ; fr. with 2 to 7 pairs of pinnse and a terminal one ; lateral pinnce spread- 

 ing, with subrigid rachises, 3-4 in. 1., ^-| in. br. ; pinnl. cut down on the upper 

 side into narrow simple or forked linear segments to a nearly straight flattened 

 leafy rachis ; texture pellucido-herbaceous, both surfaces naked ; sori small, 

 terminal on the segments ; invol. suborbicular. — Lindsaya tenuifolia, Blume, 

 Enum. 29. 



Hab. Java, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa. 



30. D. (Odont.) Blumeana, Ilk. ; rhizome creeping ; s^. strong, erect, 4-G in. 1.; 

 fr. 8-12 in. 1., 6-8 in. br., bipinnate ; pinnce rigid, erecto-patent, 4-6 in. 1., ^ in. 



