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DAVALLIA, 



DAVALLIA FOLYANTHA, (Hook). Tall coriaceous, frond 34 pinnate, pinnae distant, ovato-Ianceolate acuminate, lower 

 pinnules deeply pinnatifid almost to the rachis petiolate, upper ones and the segments of the pinnules oblong, rather acute, ultimate ones 

 decurrent, so as to form a winged rachis, all of them crenato-serrate, veins' pinnated ; no striae, each lobule bearing an oval truncated 

 involucre rather considerably below the apex, with a very short erect tooth on the outside (often obsolete). — Hook Sp. FiL i, 168, 



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



Hab, Singapore. 



PLATE No, CVIL 



