Portion of pinna of fertile Frond— under side. 



DAYALLIA DISSECTA. 

 J. Smitei. Moore. 



PLATE XX. VOL. VIII. 



Davallia — In honour of Edmund Davall, a Swiss Botanist. 

 Dissecta — Dissected. 



Am exceedingly beautiful Fern when well grown, and easily 

 cultivated. 



An evergreen stove species. 



From the Malayan Archipelago and Java. 



Introduced in 1849, by Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting. 



Fronds glabrous, triangular in form, slender, tri-quadripinnate, 

 the pinnae triangularly-elongate, acuminate, and membranous. 

 Pinnules oblong, profoundly pinnatifid, having linear dentate 

 segments; base decurrent. Fronds lateral. 



Veins forked. 



Rhizoma scandent, slender, lengthy, and densely clothed with 

 narrow reddish brown scales, which curl round. 



Rachis, midrib of pinnse, and pinnules winged. Stipes slightly 

 hirsute, brown below, green above, and fluted. 



Length of frond twelve to twenty-four inches, of which the 

 lower six to eight inches is naked. Width of frond ten inches. 

 Colour light green. 



