Barren pinna from near the apex of a Frond. 



DAVALLIA QRNATA. 



Wallich. Link. Moore. 



PLATE XXIV. VOL. VIII. 



Davallia solida, var. latifolia, 

 Slenolobus ornatus, 



HoOKEB. 



Peesl. 



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

 Ornata — Adorned . 



There are many forms of this Fern, if we connect it with 

 Davallia solida. The broad-fronded variety is so distinct, and 

 although other varieties, less broad, run this Fern into D. 

 solida, still I have ventured to keep them separate. It is a 

 noble species. 



An evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of Singapore and Borneo. 



Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1844, by Mr. 

 H. Lowe. 



Fronds glabrous, deltoid, and bipinnate; the pinnae triangu- 

 larly elongate, and having very broad pinnules, which are 

 coriaceous, oblong-ovate, the fertile ones distant and profoundly 



