TAB. LIV. 



Davallia (§ Daeeoide^e) fosnioulaoea, Hook. 



Frondibus sesquipedalibus (et ultra?) subcoriaceo-herbaceis 

 late 1 ovatis acuminatis 4-pinnatis, divisionibus primariis cir- 

 cumscriptione ovato-lanceolatis tenui-acuminatis 6-8 polli- 

 caribus, secundariistertiariisquelanceolatis segmentis angus- 

 tissime linearibus ultimis vix llneam longis subclavatis, soris 

 copiosis, involucris solitariis suburceolatis ad marginem 

 interiorem infra apicem oblique sitis. 



Hab. Naviti Levu of the Fiji Islands, in woods on mountains, 

 Milne, in the Voy. of the Herald, under Capt. Denham,B.N. 



The most finely and deeply cut of all the genus Davallia. 

 The resemblance to fennel leaves is indeed weakened by the 

 very copious sori, which are situated on the interior margin 

 of most of the ultimate segments, and so prominent, and so 

 oblique in direction, that a fertile segment not inaptly 

 resembles a tobacco-pipe, with a crest or wing on one side. 

 A very obscure costa passes through all the segments ; indeed 

 the ramification is of that character that it may be as cor- 

 rectly described 3-4-pinnatifid as pinnate. 



Tab. LIV. Fig. 1 . Primary branch or division of Davallia 

 fceniculacea ; natural size. f. 2. Ultimate segments, one fertile, 

 — magnified; f. 3. Fertile segment, more magnified. 



Cent. 2. t, 54, 



