60 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



(Also in China, Java, Borneo, Tropical Australia, Polynesian 

 Islands, Madagascar, Ango^, Fernando Po, and Johanna Island.) 



4. Davallia epiphylla. (Blume.) Rhizome thick, fibrillose ; 

 stipe 4-6 inches long, erect, firm; fronds 12-15 inches long, 6-9 

 inches broad, deltoid-'anceolate, tripinnatind ; main rachis hardly at 

 all winged; pinnules of the lowest pinnae lanceolate, i| inch long, 

 •§ inch broad ; segments narrow, mucronate, sharply toothed ; texture 

 coriaceous ; veins not immersed, one or two carried into each tooth ; 

 sori small, submarginal, half cup shaped, with the sharp mucro of 

 the tooth extending beyond them. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 96. Bedd. 

 Suppl. to Ferns, t. 350. 



Malay Peninsula. 

 (Also in Java.) 



5. Davallia divaricata (Blume.) Rhizome creeping, clothed 

 with long lanceolate-caudate chestnut scales ; stipe firm, erect, 

 6-12 inches long; fronds 2-3 feet long, tripinnatifid ; lower pinnae 

 often 1 2 inches long by 6 inches broad ; segments deltoid, cut down 

 to the rachis in the lower part, with linear-oblong, sharply-toothed 

 lobes ; texture coriaceous ; veins uniform, not conspicuous ; sori half 

 cup-shaped, placed obliquely as regards the central veins in the teeth 

 at some distance from the edge ; involucres as long as broad. Hook. 

 Syn. Fil. p. 96. D. polyantha (Hook), Bedd. F. B. I. t. 107. 



Sikkim, Mishmee, Khasya ; Ma 1 ay Peninsula. 

 (Also in South China and Java.) 



6. Davallia Griffithiana. {Hook.) Rhizome creeping, stout, 

 clothed with long lanceolate-caudate white or yellowish scales ; stipe 

 erect, wiry, 4-6 inches long; fronds 9-12 inches long, 4-8 inches broad, 

 deltoid 3-4-pinnatifid ; pinnules of the lower pinnae lanceolate-deltoid, 

 2-3 inches long, 1 inch or more broad ; lower segments toothed on 

 the barren fronds, cut down nearly to the rachis in the fertile ; texture 

 coriaceous ; sori large, submarginal or marginal ; involucres cup- 

 shaped, very shortly attached on the sides. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 96. 



