DAVALLTIA, 
Sw. Fil. - (Humata pinnatifidas Cav. Lecc. 273). 
Barren a. ovato-lanceolate, acute, undivided, “entire ; 
fertile ones lanceolate, pinnatifid. Cav. Gathered by Louis’ 
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flands. We know it~ nes from Cava- 
The barren fronds are to be more 
ony, the fert ile ones much longer, 
8, which are very Neep a approach, eat impertedily, 
to the beautiful polypodium crifpum, firuthionis pennam referens, 
Plum. Fil. t. 82. which Linnzus confounds with his P. /ru- 
thionis, Each lobe is furnifhed with a eee row of fructi- 
fications, see in the upper parts. The covers are 
femicircular, The loweft ah of aes frond are always 
more or iefs Renny on the lower fide at the bafe; fome- 
times they, and {ome of the ane are deeply pinnatifid. 4 
D. contigua, Hedw. Fil. fafe. 4. Sw. Fil. 130. (Tricho- 
scontiguum; Forft. Prod. 8 Frond linear-lanceo- 
late, pinnatitid ; fegments linear, obtufe, fomewhat cut. Sw. 
ative of the iflands of the acl Cc — of which we 
have feen no fpecimens. 5. D. pinnata Ecc, 277. 
Frond pinnate. Leaflets linear, alternate, ae ‘Stalk 
triangular. ound by Louis Née in Chili, as well as 
in the Philippine iflands. ileal is api ds a oe 
tudinal furrow, reaching to the fummit of the 
a foot long, compofed of sean ‘undulat ed ie 
ihe long, and two lines broad, but narrower tow 
point. Near every preen are one or two glo bole dot of 
feadupestion, each with a cup-like cover, which is not fo 
as as broad, adheres to Gale - Anh its ba a ata _ 
Cav. 6. D. . Fil. 
ually heart-fhaped a 
In the Linnzan Hebariun, but hoa what pen is 
unknown. e frond is long a narr 
AU ternate, crowded, fe aed an inch long, 
bres bluntith, wavy, fo acahae curved u upwards. an 
numerous, each ‘with a femicircular flat cover. Plum 
tab. 63. feems to be a different* plant, and probably an : 
pidiem - 7. Dz. pedata. Sm, Tras, 248. (Adiantum re- 
pens; Linn. Suppl. 446. Humata trifoliata 3. Cav. Lecc. 
ae ‘according to Swartz.) Frond with five angles, three- 
cleft and pinnatifid; the end of ite fegments crowded with 
frutifications, A pie of the Mauritius, and of the La. 
drone ifla Root long, creeping, and {ealy. Fronds on 
ube papel ftailks, two or three inches long, each tise 
unequal angles, — compofed of three, more 
iefs diting, fee. whlch are thick, polifhed, setae be- 
neath ; the central one ade pinn atifid and a Dots 
{mall, ‘crowded near the points of che lobes, aad pn with a 
rounded clofe cover. 8. D. Airfuta. “ Sw. Fil. 13c. (Tri- 
Thunb. Jap. 3393 but of Lin- 
. e, hai cai conn, ri 
ceolate, fickle-fhaped, crenate on ) 
in J Frond with its ftal ke seed an over an 
very fhort denfe hairs; doubly pinnatifid, end a {pan long. 
Leaflets. alternate, lanceolate, bluntifh, gradually fhorter is 
wards, ‘pin nnatifid ; their lobes lanceolate, crenate. 
foli aat in each notch. erg. « adiantoides.. Sw 
Fil. 131. (D. fonreais foes "Sw. Filix arborefeens 
sdinitcides major; Plum. Fil. 7.t.6.) Frond doubly 
pound, Leaflets lanceolate, poi ointed, pinnatifid, oie. 
Dots round, almoft marginal, with a cup-fhaped cover. A 
flexed marginal cover. 
‘compound, pointed. Le ne ts S oiene 
nate, hairy. Dots Raciered, globole. mi. 
MSS.- Communicated by the late Mr. Chriftopher Smith 
from Honimoa avd Amboyna. 
rough m every part with thort paula rary 
ed in an alternate order; the principal diviiens 
pointed ; the ultimate ones ovate, eae crenate. 
{parin ly {cattered, at fome diflance from the edge of the 
leaves, {mall, yellowifh, globofe, each invefted with a al 
membraneous. oe brown or ‘aon cup-fhaped, crenate 
. (Trichomanes ane 3 
; Bernhardi in Schrad.. 
Frond thrice aa und, . 
cut, crowded, 
cover. I. 
Sa Prod 
Journ. for i801, 122. to. £. 2; 
! Leaflets laosesat, a 
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ry 
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iflan 
its wisasate leaflets c 
ribbed, toothed ; pe ana it- we 
dot of fruGification, whofe cover is elliptic-oblony, entire, 
not reaching to the a of the teeth. 12. D. /olida. Sw. 
Fil. 132. (D. pro 3 Acdw. Fi 
Swartz. a ichemanes folidum Forft. Prod. 8 
thrice compound, rhomboid. Leaflets ovate, auricled at. the 
cae ovate, not reaching to the 
ative of the South-Sea iflands, 
w: Hollan Root clothed with: 
very foft, narrow, curlin 2 h, 
{mooth,firmw, polifhid, pene tripinnate, ae 5 its 
whole form, and chief divifions, fomewhat shomboid. Leaf 
Jets much inclined to be or auricled at their upper 
i te or elliptical, bluntifh, 
othed. Dots 
in each too 
fhaped, at length — each 
fame form, abrupt, in fome degree dilated and 
plaited at - extrem! tr. Pr eae Ramphins s Dyyop- 
teris arbore t. f. » as an Swartz 
fulpe tts, be a ‘pla nt; : at clea we hae none more hke it. 
13. D. elegans. Sw. ¥ ie a asa Sedna, 
Houtt. N. h. v. 2. t. to a: 2. Sw.) ond thrice com- 
pound, lax, taper-poin Leaflets ace. ats, cut, ferrat- 
ed; each ferrature aeabies oothed, embra 
oa det. Brought by the late fir G 
hina. The frome has a lax and feemingly drooping habit, 
with a dark-green hue and polifhed turface. 
their fegments elongated ; the latter lanceolate, 
acute, ila ferrated, eee vidas tormed 
ceps-like connivent teeth, be which ttands the round. 
lot of frattification, with a can orb'cular, though fome- 
what abrupt cover, reaching to the edge 
the teeth, We have a Daval ia ia 
eafiets and: 
decurrent, 
‘of two for- 
which 
eth, and not quite f 
cae one very Itke it, if not the ‘fame, in Otaherte, 
atens. Sw. Fil. 132. Frond thrice oo ts 
fions nearly oppolite, g. ets deere tes pin 
natifid ; their feg iments linear, eee with fruBication, 
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