6o Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
(Also in China, Java, Borneo, Tropical Australia, Polynesian 
Islands, Madagascar, Angola, Fernando Po, and Johanna Island.) 
4. Davallia epiphylla. {Blu?jie) Rhizome thick, fibrillose ; 
stipe 4-6 inches long, erect, firm ; fi-onds 12-15 inches long, 6-9 
inches broad, deUoid-lanceolate, tripinnatifid ; main rachis hardly at 
all winged; pinnules of the lowest pinnae lanceolate, i \ inch long, 
i inch broad ; segments narrow, mucronate, sharply toothed ; texture 
coriaceous ; veins not immersed, one or two carried into each tooth ; 
sori small, submarginal, half cup shaped, with the sharp mucro of 
the tooth extending beyond them. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 96. Bedd. 
Siippl. to Ferns ^ ^- 350. ' 
Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in Java. ) 
5. Davallia divaricata {Bluuie.) Rhizome creeping, clothed 
with long lanceolate-caudate chestnut scales ; stipe firm, erect, 
6-1 2 inches long ; fronds 2-3 feet long, tripinnatifid ; lower pinnae 
often 12 inches long by 6 inches broad; segments deltoid, cut down 
to the rachis in the lower part, with linear-oblong, sharply-toothed 
lobes ; texture coriaceous ; veins uniform, not conspicuous ; sori half 
cup-shaped, placed obliquely as regards the central veins in the teeth 
at some distance from the edge ; involucres as long as broad. Hook. 
Syn. Fil. p. 96. D. polyantha (Hook), Bedd. F. B. I. t. 107. 
Sikkim, Mishmee, Khasya; Ma^ay Peninsula. 
(Also in South China and Java.) 
6. Davallla Griffithiana. (Hook.) Rhizome creeping, stout, 
clothed with long lanceolate-caudate white or yellowish scales ; stipe 
erect, wiry, 4-6 inches long; fronds 9-12 inches long, 4-8 inches broad, 
deltoid 3-4-pinnatifid ; pinnules of the lower pinnae lanceolate-deltoid, 
2-3 inches long, i inch or more broad ; lower segments toothed on 
the barren fronds, cut down nearly to the rachis in the fertile ; texture 
coriaceous ; sori large, submarginal or marginal ; involucres cup- 
shaped, very shortly attached on the sides. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 96. 
