﻿34. DAVALLIA. S? 2. COLPOSORIA ^03 



or crenate, oblong lobes. Tcxlure coriaceous; main racbis slightly winged 

 towards Ibc apex, secondary and tertiary rachises narrowly winged; surfaces 

 more or less distinctly striated or marked with lines or spurious veins be- 

 tween the true veins. Sori in the teeth of the mostly narrower fertile seg- 

 ments, several to a segment, with 1 — 2 horns projecting beyond them; in- 

 dusium + orbicular or elleptical, the both ends rounded or roundish-deltoid, 

 the apex reaching the margin of the segment. 

 Tropical Asia, Polynesia, Australia. 



(15) ». liorraiiiii, Mance, Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil. 469; Uedd., Ferns 

 S.Br.L, Suppl, tab. CCCLI. 



Rhizome thick, clothed with linear-subulate, nearly black, densely grey- 

 ciliated scales. Stipes T'/^ — 10 c.M. long, naked, brownish. Fronds 15 — 30 

 c.M. long, deltoid, 4-pinnatifid. Pinnae stalked, deltoid, lowest largest, produced 

 on the lower side, their rachises winged to base. Pinnulae and segments 

 subsessile, crowded, deltoid, + reduced on the lower side; linal lobes ligu- 

 late, % — 1 m.M. broad, with sorus at base of inner side. Texture subcoria- 

 ceous, surfaces naked; barren lobes 1-veined. Indusium subcylindrical. 



Malacca. 



(14) ». pyxiflata, Cav., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 96; Hk., Spec. Fil., 

 I, tab. LV, C; Bau. & Hk., Gen., Fil., tab. XXVH. 



Rhizome si out, creeping, densely clothed with pale-brown, linear scales. 

 Stipes erect, strong, 10—15 c.M. long. Fronds 20—45 c.M. long, 15— 25 c.M. 

 broad, deltoid, 3 — 4-pinnaliIid. Pinnulae of the lower pinnae lanceolate, 5 — 8 

 c.M. long, + 2Y2 c.M. broad, with deltoid or oblong segments, the lowest 

 of which are cut down nearly to the racbis. Texture coriaceous. Sori in 

 the teeth, with a broad space outside them, which projects like a horn beyond 

 them ; indusium half-cupshaped. 



Kei Islands; Australia. 



* (15) ». biillata. Wall., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 97; Hk., Spec. Fil., 

 I, tab. L, B: Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, lig. 955; Bedd., Fern S.L, tab. XVH. 



Rhizome creeping, stout; the scales light-brown or whitish, the base round, 

 peltate, the apex long, tiliform, hair-pointed, short-ciliate, + recurved. Stipes 

 strong, 772—1272 c.M. long, erect. Fronds 15—30 c.M. long, 10—20 c.M. 

 broad, + deltoid, 3 — 4-pinnatifid. Pinnulae of the lower pinnae lanceolate, 

 5 — 8 c.M. long, + 272 c.M. broad, with deeply inciso-pinnatifid, oblong rhom- 



