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34. DAVALUA. § "2. OOLPOSORIA. 



' ' 5.5. Indusium urceolale. 



(17) D. trichomanoides. 

 3.3.3. Rhizome scales brown. Rhizome stout, scandent. 



(18) D. Wagneriana. 

 2.S. Fully developed fronds more than 50 c.M. long. 



(19) D. divaricata. 

 1.1. Indusium ± 2 y, as long as broad. 



Rhizome scales strongly adpressed, which gives the rhizome 

 the appearance to be quite naked. (20) D. solida. 



«.«. Rhizome scales not strongly adpressed. 



p. Indusium rostrate. (21) D. emboloslegia. 



jS.p. Indusium not rostrate. 



y. Soriferous segments without horns, but denti- 

 culate at the apex. (22) D. Veitchii. 

 y.y. Soriferous segments with i — 2 distinct horns. 

 <y. Tips of the ultimate segments rather hair- 

 like. Stipes winged. (23) D. brevipes. 

 3.S. Tips of the ultimate segments not hair-like. 

 Stipes not winged. (24) D. dissecta. 

 1.1,1. Indusium ± 3 — 4 X «* 'o«9' «* broad. (25) D. fljiensis. 



(5) P. hi i « e HtW) ». A , 1 1 1 Jt is Hort . Bog .j 



Syn. Fil., 98 ; Hk., Spec. Fil., I, tab. LX, A ; Microlepia ciliala, CopeL, P^,j^. 

 Philipp., 55; M. hirsuta, Pr., Epim., 97; G. Chr., Ind. Pil ; DavaWtdes gram- 

 matosorum, hirsutum Sf gymnocarpum, CopeL, Philipp. Journ,/<TII, 33—34; 

 Leucostegia hirsuta, J. Sm., (oldest name). 



Rhizome firm, creeping, scaly, the scales wjjfe^ bluntish, roundish or 

 oblong, peltate base and a suddenly very bri^acuminate, hair-like, erecto- 



S patent or spreading apex + 1—1 '/2 c.M,.H[ong. Stipes scattered, 5—10 c.M. 



® long, pubescent, firm, erect. Fronds^ 20—60 c.M. long, + 7 '/a — 25 c.M. 



g* broad, lanceolate, 2 — 3-pinnatiJi<f: Pinnae spreading, lanceolate, the central 



^ ones the longest, I'/j — i,^ffM. broad, deeply pinnatifid. with oblong or linear- 



m oblong, entire to pjalfatifid, blunt or acute, close segments. Texture thin, 



flaccid; rachisaHtl under surface and occasionally also the upper surface hairy 



or fibrillojg^specially on the costae and veins. Sori 2 — 12 to a segment, 



\e,r<jJims\\, semicupuliform or semicylindrical, placed near the centre of the 



mh a t the ba s e, whether o r not ciliate — Gftp e laad distingu i gheg 5 ■ form e i 



