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PAVALLIA. 



DaVALLIA GfllFFITHIANA, (Hook). Caudex long stout creeping, clothed with copious pale-coloured shaggy fimbriate* 

 pilose scales, frond deltoideo-ovate sub-coriaceous, tripinnate, pinnae acuminate, pinnules oblong lanceolate petiolulate obtuse, obliquely 

 cuneate at the base pinnatifid, lower ones again pinnate, lobes short, obtuse or retuse, almost obsolete on the lower margin, involucres flat 

 orbiculate, the upper half free placed at a distance from the apex of the lobules and chiefly upon those of the superior margin, rachides 

 (except the primary ones) winged, stipes elongated.— j8 more coriaceous, with a faint appearance of striae or pseudo-veins.— Hook Sp. Fil. 

 h 168. 



The figure is taken from Sir W. Hooker's Species Filicum. 

 Hab. Khasya, Assam, 



PLATE No. CVI. 



