Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 6i 



Bcdd. F. B. I. t. 1 06. The texture and habit of Davallia, but the 

 indusium is nearer that of Leucostegia. 



Bhotan and Mishmee, Khasya and Jaintea, 3,000-5,000 feet. 



(Also in South China.) 



7. Davallia Lorrainei. (Hanre.) Rhizome thick as a quill; 

 scales linear-subulate, nearly black, densely grey ciliated ; stipe 

 3-4 inches long, naked brownish; fronds |-i foot long, deltoid, 

 4-pinnatifid ; pinnae stalked deltoid, lowest largest produced on 

 the lower side, their rachises winged to base ; pinnules and segments 

 subsessile, crowded deltoid much reduced on lower side ; final lobes 

 ligulate, J— J lines broad, with soius at base of inner side; texture 

 subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked; barren, lobes i-veined; involucre 

 subc)lindrical, § line long. Efance. Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. V. vol. v. 

 p. 254. Hook. Syn. Fit. p. 469. Bcdd. F. B. I. Suppt. p. 4. /. 351. 



Malay Peninsula. 



8. Davallia bullata. ( Wall.) Rhizome creeping, stout, 

 densely clothed with hair-pointed chestnut scales ; stipe strong, 

 erect, 3-4 inches long; fronds 8-12 inches long, 4-8 inches broad, 

 deltoid, 4-pinnatifid; pinnules of the lower pinna? lanceolate, 2-3 

 inches long, 1 inch broad, with deeply inciso-pinnatifid oblong 

 rhomboidal segments ; texture coriaceous ; sori deeply half cup- 

 shaped, occupying the greater part of the tooth in which they are 

 placed, marginal, with usually a hoin on the outside. Hook. Syn. 

 Fil. 97. Bedd. F. S. Lt. 17. 



All the Western Ghats of Madras and Bombay Presidencies ; 

 Himalayas, Nepal to Bhotan, 2,000-6,000 feet; Khasya; Ceylon; 

 Birma, and Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in Japan, South China, and the Malay Islands.) 



9. Davallia speciosa. (Mett.) t Rhizome wide-creeping, 2 lines 

 thick, scales ferruginous dense linear-subulate; stipe 3-5 inches, 

 naked, brown, stramineous; frond deltoid, 4-pinnatifid, 1— if foot 

 long; lachis winged in upper half, pinnae lanceolate-deltoid, long- 

 stalked, lowest largest 3-4 inches broad ; pinnules and segments 



