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DAYALLIA. (See " Ferns of Southern India," p. 5.) 



DAVALLIA TRICHOMANOIDES. (Bl.) Caudex creeping, furnished with narrow linear long-pointed golden scales, fronds 

 subtriplicato-pinnate membranaceous glabrous, pinnae sub-rhombeo ovate rather remote, pinnules trapezoid oblong deeply pinnatifid, 

 segments narrow cuneato-linear obtuse subbifid, fertile ones tmneato-emarginate at the apex with a solitary sorus segments oblong 

 truncate ; rachis margined above and as well as the subtrigonal stipes glabrous. Bl En. Fil. Jav. p. 238 ;— Hook, Sp. Fil. 1. 186, 



The specimen figured is from Ceylon, where it has just been detected by Mr. Thwaites. (c. P, 3903,) 



Hab, Ceylon, (Adam's Peak on the Saffragam side, elevation 5,000 feet), Mountains of Java j the Moluccas, 



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