IS. DAVAUJA, §§§ ODONTOLOIIA. 93 



* Fronds not branched. Sp. 25-27. 



25. D. (Odont.) h/menoph/Uoides, Baker ; rhizome wide-creeping, slender, scan- 

 dent, paleaceous ; fr. snbsessile, simply pinnate, 4^6 in. 1., about \ in. br. ; pinncB 

 l|-2 lin. deep, cut down into narrow simple or forked linear segments to a nearly 

 straight rachis ; texture thinly herbaceous, both surfaces naked ; S(>ri sabrotnnd. 

 — Lindsaea, Blume, Enum. Fit. Jav.p. 218. 



Hab. Java and K'ew Caledonia. — ^la probably a variety of 2T with deeply laciniated 

 pinnae. 



26. D. (Odont.) puIcheHa, Hk. ; rhizome slender, wide-creeping, and mnch 

 branched ; st. slender, wiry, erect, naked, 2-3 in. 1. ; fr. 4-12 in. 1., ^-f in. br. ; 

 pinnw slightly stalked, about 5 in. across, ^ in. deep, the lower margin more 

 or less curved upwards, oblique at the base, the upper cut into 2 to 4 blunt 

 lobes ; texture herbaceous, rachis and both surfaces naked ; sori small, placed 

 in the lobes at a short distance from the edge ; veins sometimes anastomosing 

 at the apex, and then their sori become confluent. — Hi. Sp. 1. p. 177. t. 548. 

 Synaphlebium Pickeringii, Brack, p. 223. t. 30. fig. 2. 



Hab. Philippine Islands, !E^ji, and Samoa. — ^First published by Blame as Aspidiam 

 adiantoides. 



27. D. (Odont.) repens, Desv. ; rhizome wide-creeping, paleaceous, climbing ; 

 fr. simply pinnate, 8-18 in. !., ^\\ in. br. ; pinnm ^-\ in. 1., about hsdf as broad 

 as deep, the lower line slightly curved, oblique at the base, the upper rounded, 

 nearly entire or crenately lobed ; texture pellncido-herbaceons ; sori marginal, 

 large, about as broad as deep, often confluent in the not crenated form. — D. 

 Boryana, Presl, Hk. Sp. 1. p. 175. D. hemiptera, Bon/, Hk. Sp. I. p. 176. 



Hab. Assam, Keilgherries, Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Polynesian Islands, and IVIanritina. 

 — ^Very variable in size. Quite doubtful between Odoatolotaa and Lindsaya, and perhaps 

 not distinct from L. oblongifolia. 



** Fronds more or less branched. Sp. 28-30, 



28. D. (Odont.) Parkeri, Hk. ; rhizome slender, creeping ; «?. flexnose, wiry, 

 naked, 2-6 in. 1.; fi: simple or branched, with one or two pairs of lateral pinnse; 

 the main fr. 4-6 in.- 1., about f in. br. ; pinnl. a quarter of a circle, about § in. 

 br., J in. deep, the outer edge slightly crenate ; texture herbaceous, both surfaces 

 naked ; sori small, submarginal; invol. rather broader than deep. — Hk, Sp. 1. p. 

 176. t. 53. 



Hab. British Guiana. — ^Like 0. piiloTuIla, but the rachis branched. 



29. D. (Odont.) triquetra. Baker; rhizome creeping, fibrillose; it. strong, erecf^ 

 4-6 in. 1. ; fr. with 2 to 7 pairs of pinnae and a terminal one ; lateral pinnm spread- 

 ing, with subrigid rachises, 3-4 in. 1., \-\ in. br. ; pinnl. cut down on the upper 

 side into narrow simple or forked linear segments to a nearly straight flattened 

 leafy rachis ; texture pellncido-herbaceons, both surfaces naked ; sari small, 

 terminal on the s^ments j inool. suborbicular. — Lindsay a tenuifolia, Blume, 

 Enum. 29. 



Hab. Java, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa. 



30. D. (Odont.) Blumeana, Hk. ; rhizome creeping ; st. strong, erect, 4-6 in. 1.; 

 fr. 8-12 in. L, 6-8 in. br., bipinnate ; pinyice rigid, erecto-patent, 4-6 in. 1., ^ in. 



