Fertile pinna— under side. 



DAVALLIA LONCHITIDEA. 



Wallich. Hooker. 



FLATK XXX. VOL. Till. 



Davallia platypJiylla, 

 Microlepia " 



" lonchitidea, 



Don. 



J. Smith. 



J. Smith. 



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

 Lonchitidea — Spear-shaped. 



In the Section Mickolefia of Authors. 



A beautiful stove species, one of the noblest of the genus, 

 making an exceedingly handsome specimen, having very spread- 

 ing and nearly horizontal fronds, above a foot in width. 



Native of Nepal, Madras, and the Island of Ceylon. 



Fronds large, tall, and tripinnate, the primary and secondary 

 pinnules much petiolated — the petioles long and glossy. Coriaceo- 

 membranaceous, glabrous. The pinnae large and spreading, 



