

©AVALLIA. (See "Ferns of Southern India/' p. 5.) 



U AVALLIA -SOLID A. (Sw.) Tall, caudex stout, creeping, clothed with densely imbricated scales, fronds coriaceous tri-snV 

 quadri-pinnate, pinna; acuminate, pinnules trapeziform acuminate, piunatifid many-veine d, terminal ones creuato-serrate coadunate into 

 an acuminated point, involucres linear-oblong, sunk in a tooth or segment having a narrow wing on each side or entire HooTc So Fil 

 i. m.Sw. Sjfn. Fil. p. 132 and 345. Willi. Sp. PI. v., p. 470. Sohhh. Fil. i. 12S ;-« D. procera, Hediv. Fil. Fasc. iv. lab. (in descr. 

 elegans") fide Sw. ■ variety /3. latifolia ; pinnules wider, soriferous segments entire (without terminal teeth) ;— D. ornata Wall Cat 



n. 246 ;-Stenolobus ornatus Pr. (name only) variety y. caudata ; pinn* narrower, apices of the pinnules long caudate' involucres 



with a small incurved terminal tooth on one or both sides, ^sometimes entire. D. caudata, Wall. Cat. n. 2220 an Sw '?— Stenolobus 

 Kunzeanus, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 130. t. 4./. 30, (name and figure only) ;-« D. elegans, Kze. herb. nee. Swartz," (Pr.) ;-D. solida ft 

 lacera, Bl, En.Fil.Jav.p.2U;—TnQ\iommas, solidum, Forster, Prodr. n. 475. 



The specimen figured is from Moulmein— (Parish.) 



Hab. Pacific Islands, ©taheite, New Islands, Piteairns Island, Maiden Island, Java, Moulmein, Pena.ic Singa»t*ra 

 Luzon, Island of Vanicoro. " 



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