TAB. XL. 



Asplenium (Euasplenium) davallioides, Hook. 



Caudice parvo suberecto supra squamoso, stipitibus csespitosis 

 3-4 uncias longis compressis deciduo squamosis, frondibus 

 3-6-uncias longis subcoriaceis ovatis , acuminatis 3-sub- 

 quadripinnatis (junioribus primariis pinnis lobato-pinna- 

 tifidis), pinnis primariis 2-3 uncias longis petiolatis, secun- 

 dariis petiolatis J-f unciam longis late ovatis, pinnulis 

 ultimis parvis oblongis acutis simplicibus vel bifidis, seg- 

 mentis omnibus patenti-recurris acutis, venis costiformibus, 

 soris oblongis saspissime marginalibus longitudine fere 

 segmentorum, involucris membranaceis firmis, rachibua 

 alato-compressis. 



Asplenium davallioides, Hook. Florul. Hong-Kong, in Kew 

 Gard. Misc. 9. p. 343. Hook. Sp. Fil. p. 212. 



Hab. Nangasaki, Japan, Babington, n. 101; Loocboo Islands, 

 C. Wright; Tsus Sima, Strait of Korea, Wilford, n. 791. 



A species whicb cannot easily be mistaken for any other 

 of the group to which it belongs, if the short and singularly 

 divergent or patenti-recurved ultimate segments be con- 

 sidered, with the sori, though short in themselves, nearly as 

 long as the ultimate segments, and giving the appearance of 

 a dareoid species of Davallia. 



Fertile plant ; nat. size. Fig. 1. Pinnule with sori. f. 2. 

 3. Back and front view of a sorus ; magnified, f. 4. Young 

 frond ; nat. size. 



CjvNT, 2. T. Kl. 



