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DAVALLIE^. 
HuMATA. (See page 4) 
1. Humata vestita. (Blume.) Caiidex creeping, paleaceous, stipes elongated, paleaceous with lanceolate chaffy scales, fronds 
coriaceous (a span or more high), bi-pinnate, pinnos lanceolate, sub-petiolate pinnatifid, the lowermost ones at the base again pinnate, inferior 
segments the largest, all of them serrato-dentate, rachis and costa beneath beset with broadly ovate obtuse chaffy appreased sub-peltate 
scales, fructification small in the axils of the teeth, involucres sub-orbicular, rather broader than long. Hook. Sp. Fil. i, ^ja^/e 156.— 
Davallia vestita, Bl. in En, Fil. Jav., x>. 233. 
Ceylon. (C. P. 3068.) 
PLATE No. CCLIII. 
MiCKOLEPiA. (See page 5.) 
1. Microlqna 2:>roxima% (Blume.) Caudex creeping tomentose, of the thickness of a man's finger, .stipites scaleless, siib-glabrous 
shining h a foot long ; fronds tri-pinnate, lanceolate, or deltoid-lanceolate, sub-glabrous, sparingly pilose on the veins beneath, 2-3 feet 
long, rachis slightly scabrous ; pinnae (and pinnules) approximate lanceolate caudato-acuminate, alternate ; pinnules pinnatifid or at the 
base pinnate, lobes falcato-trapezioid, acute or obtuse, crenato dentate. Sori a little within the margin. — Involucres, cup-shaped. — Thwaites 
En. Cey. Pl.—Bl. En. Plant Jav. 2, 2Z8.—Uook. Sp. Fil. i, 183 ? 
Ceylon. (C. P. 3827.) Oova district in the Central Province. 
PLATE No. CCLIV. 
