76 DAVALLIA ORNATA. 



pinnatifid, superior confluent, base wedge-shaped, margin seriate. 



Veins forked. 



Fronds lateral. 



Rhizoma scandent. stout, and clothed with woolly scales. 



Length of frond eighteen to twenty inches; colour bright 

 shining green. 



My thanks are due to Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, for a 

 plant of this Fern; and to Mr. Joseph Henderson, of Went- 

 worth, and Mr. G. Norman, of Hull, for fronds. 



It may be procured of Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting; Sim, 

 of Foot r s Cray; E. G. Henderson, of St. John's Wood; Veitch, 

 of Chelsea; Jackson, of Kingston; and Booth, of Hamburg. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



