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2. Davallia solida. {Swartz.) Tall, caudex stout, creeping, 

 clothed with densely imbricated scales, fronds coriaceous trisub- 

 quadripinnate, pinnae acuminate ; pinnules trapeziform acuminate, 

 pinnatifid, many-veined, terminal ones crenate-serrate coadunate 

 into an acuminated point ; involucres linear-oblong, sunk in a tooth 

 or segment having a narrow wing on each side or entire. Hook. Sp. 

 Fil. i. 163. Sw. Syn. Fil. pp. 132 and 345. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 95. 

 Bedd. F. B. I. t. 104. The width of the pinnules and the amount 



of cutting differ considerably. 

 Davallia ornata ( Wall) is a 

 variety with the pinnules very 

 wide. 



Birma ; Penang ; and 

 Singapore. 



(Also in Java and the 

 Polynesian Islands.) 



3. Davallia elegans. 

 (Sw.) Rhizome stout, creep- 

 ing, clothed with woolly fibres ; 

 stipe firm, erect, 4-8 inches 

 long; fronds 1-2 feet long, 

 9-15 inches broad, deltoid- 

 tripinnatifid ; main rachis 

 slightly winged towards the 

 apex; pinnules of the lower 

 pinnae 2-3 inches long, 1 inch 



{Sw.) 



wide, deltoid-lanceolate, cut down quite to the rachis in the lower 

 part, with oblong-deltoid segments, which are slightly toothed 

 and obliquely truncate at the base on the lower side ; texture 

 coriaceous; venation dose, prominent, irregular, many spurious 

 venules between the veins proper ; sori several to a segment, mar- 

 ginal, but the sharp teeth projecting beyond them at the edges ; 

 involucre half cup shaped. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 95. Bedd. F. S. 1. 1. 18. 

 Western mountains of Madras ; Ceylon, 2,000-3,000 feet 

 elevation ; Malay Peninsula. 



