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trapezoid-ovate, acuminate; the ultimate ones oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 incisely-dentate, the base wedge-shaped, uniting towards the point. Stipes 

 slender and angular, with a shallow groove in front. Indusium of a 

 reddish-brown colour, seated in a segment or tooth, linear-oblong, trun- 

 cate, the marginal whig narrow, not extending beyond the apex of the 

 indusium. Sporangia somewhat exserted. 



This is a very pretty little species, related in many respects to 

 some forms of the preceding, yet differing in the much smaller fronds, 

 and the greater delicacy of its various parts. Its nearest affinity, 

 however, is with D. Lindleyi of Hooker's Species Filicum; next to 

 which it should stand. 



9. Davallia Feejeensis, Hook. 



D. rhizomate valido repenie paleis brunneis laceris imhicatis tecto; 

 stipitibus subteretibus hinc sulcatis; frondibus coriaceis late ovatis 

 acuminatis pinnato-decompositis ; pinnis sidwppositis ; pinnulis lato- 

 lanceolatis acuminatis pinnatipar litis, laciniis " erecto-patentibus fere 

 appressis angusto-linearibus simplicibus vel bifidis;" indusio lineari 

 apice truncato in apicem laciniarum immersis, alis angustissimis 

 utrinque in dentem acutum productis vel edentidis. 



Davallia Feejeensis, Hook. Spec. Fil. 1, p. 166, t. 55, D. 



Hab. Nukalou and Ovolau, Feejee Islands : on trees. 



A very graceful species, of frequent occurrence at these islands, 

 clinging to the trunks and branches of trees by the fibrils of its thick, 

 squamose, creeping rootstock, and never found at any great distance 

 from the coast. Fronds large, and, with the somewhat round and 

 furrowed stipes, usually about 2 feet high, broad-ovate, acuminate, coria- 

 ceous, decompoundly pinnate: primary divisions subopposite, the idti- 

 mate divisions narrow-linear, simple or bifid, sometimes dilated at their 

 points, in which is seated the long and slender indusium. The latter 

 has a truncate apex, and a very narrow wing on each side, termi- 

 nating in the form of a tooth, which however is sometimes wanting. 

 In a young state, the rhachis and costa are covered with whitish 

 arachnoid hairs, which at length disappear. 



