Portion of pinna of fertile Frond- under side. 



DAVALLIA POLYANTHA. 



Hooker. Moore. 



PLATE XXIII. VOL. VIII. 



Microlepia polyantlia, 

 Davallia divaricata, 



Fee. 



Blttme. J. Smith. Peesl. 



{Not of Hooker, Schlechtendal, 



or Link.) 



Davallia — In honour of Edmund D avail, a Swiss Botanist. 

 Polyantha — Many -flowered. 



This beautiful exhibition plant should be in every collection. 

 The fronds being exceedingly handsome, the fertile and sterile 

 ones so different, the shades of green, and in younger fronds the 

 tints of pink and red so various, and the plant itself so readily 

 grown, that it is a universal favourite. 



An evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of the Malayan Archipelago and Singapore. 



Introduced from Java in 1847, by Messrs. Roliisson, of 

 Tooting. 



The fronds, which are glabrous, are triangularly-elongate in 

 shape, triquadripinnate, the pinnae as well as the pinnules 

 VOL. VIII M 



