Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 59 
2. Davallia solida. iSwartz.) Tall, caudex stout, creeping, 
clothed with densely imbricated scales, fronds coriaceous trisub- 
quadripinnate, pinnae acuminate ; pinnules trapeziform acuminate, 
pinnatifid, many-veined, terminal ones crenate-serrate coadunate 
into an acuminated point ; involucres linear-oblong, sunk in a tooth 
or segment having a narrow wing on each side or entire. Hook. Sp. 
Fil. i. 163. Sw. Syn. Fil. pp. 132 and 345. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 95. 
Bedd. F. B. I. t. 104. The width of the pinnules and the amount 
of cutting differ considerably. 
Davallia ornata (Wa/l.) is a 
variety with the pinnules very 
wide. 
Birma ; Penang ; and 
Singapore. 
(Also in Java and the 
Polynesian Islands.) 
3. Davallia elegans. 
(Sw.) Rhizome stout, creep- 
ing, clothed with woolly fibres ; 
stipe firm, erect, 4-8 inches 
long; fronds 1-2 feet long, 
9-15 inches broad, deltoid- 
tripinnatifid ; main rachis 
slightly winged towards the 
apex ; pinnules of the lower 
pinn» 2-3 inches long, i inch 
wide, deltoid-lanceolate, cut down quite to the rachis in the lower 
part, with oblong-deltoid segments, which are slightly toothed 
and obliquely truncate at the base on the lower side ; texture 
coriaceous; venation dose, prominent, irregular, many spurious 
venules between the veins proper ; sori several to a segment, mar- 
ginal, but the sharp teeth projecting beyond them at the edges ; 
involucre half cup -shaped. Hojk. Syn. Fil. 95. Bedd. F. S. 1. 1. 18. 
Western mountains of Madras ; Ceylon, 2,000-3,000 feet 
elevation ; Malay Peninsula. 
N°30. 
DAVALLIA SOLIDA. iSw.) 
