244 FILICES. 



6. Davallia pyxidata, Cav. 



Davallia pyxidata, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 132; Willd. Spec. PL 5, p. 471; It. Br. Prodr. 

 Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 157 ; Hook. Spec. Pil. 1, p. 169, t. 55, C. f. 1, 2. 



Hab. Vicinity of Port Jackson, and Puen Buen, New South Wales. 



In habit this is very much like the preceding species ; but the fronds 

 are less compoundly divided, and the scales on the rhizoma more 

 slender and hairy. 



7. Davallia solida, Sw. 





D. rhizomate valido repente paleis hrunneis imbricatis vestito ; stipitibm 

 nudis Icevibus semiteretibus hinc sulcatis; frondibus coriaceis tri-sub- 

 quadripinnatis ; pinnis acuminatis ; pinmdis trapeziformibus acutis 

 vel acuminatis, ultimis oblongo-lanceolatis in apicem crenato-serratum 

 confluentibus ; indusio lineari-oblongo apice rotundato in dentem vel 

 segrnentum imrnersis hinc vel utrinque anguste alatis, alls in dentem 

 acutum productis ; sporangiis exsertis. 



Davallia solida, Sw. Syn. Pil. p. 132 & 375; Willd. Spec. PI. 5, p. 470; Blume, 

 Enum. Plant. Jav. p. 234; Hook. Spec. Fil. 1, p. 163, t. 42, B. 



Yar. 8. pent agon A : frondibus minor ibus late ovatis acuminatis bipin- 

 natis; pinnis lanceolato-oblongis acuminatis; pinnulis inciso-lobatis, 

 lobis in apicem obtusum dentatum confluentibus; indusio lineari basi 

 attenuato utrinque liaud dentato. 



Hab. Tongatabu; also Samoan and Society Islands. Var. h. 

 Island of Manua, Samoan Group. 



Rootstock creeping, often as thick as the little finger, densely clothed 

 with brown scales. Stipes long, naked and smooth, about half round, 

 channelled in front. Fronds large, coriaceous, sometimes quite 

 rigid, trir-quadripinnate ; with spreading acuminate pinnae. Pinnules 

 trapeziform, and either terminating in an acute or very much 



