Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 6t 
Bedd. F. B. 1. t. io6. The texture and habit of Davallia, but the 
indusium is nearer that of Leucostegia. 
Bhotan and Mishmee, Khasya and Jaintea, 3,000-5,000 feet. 
(Also in South China.) 
7. Davallia Lorrainel {Haiice.) Rhizome thick as a quill ; 
scales linear-subulate, nearly black, densely grey ciliated ; stipe 
3- 4 inches long, naked brownish; fronds \-i foot long, deltoid, 
4- pinnatifid ; pinnae stalked deltoid, lowest largest produced on 
the lower side, their rachises winged to base ; pinnules and segments 
subsessile, crowded deltoid much reduced on lower side ; final lobes 
ligulate, lines broad, with sorus at base of inner side ; texture 
subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked ; barren lobes i-veined ; involucre 
subc) lindrical, \ line long. Hance. Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. V. vol. v. 
/. 254. Hook. Syft. Fd. p. 469. Bedd. F B. I. Spppt. p. 4. 351. 
Malay Peninsula. 
8. Davallia bullata. ( Wall.) Rhizome creeping, stout, 
densely clothed with hair-pointed chestnut scales ; stipe strong, 
erect, 3-4 inches long; fronds 8-12 inches long, 4-8 inches broad, 
deltoid, 4-pinnatifid; pinnules of the lower pinrae lanceolate, 2-3 
inches long, i inch broad, with deeply inciso-pinnatifid oblong 
rhomboidal segments ; texture coriaceous ; sori deeply half cup- 
shaped, occupying the greater part of the tooth in which they are 
placed, marginal, with usually a horn on the outside. Hook. Syn. 
Fil. 97. Bedd. F. I.t. 17. 
All the Western Ghats of Madras and Bombay Presidencies ; 
Himalayas, Nepal to Bhotan, 2,000-6,000 feet; Khasya; Ceylon; 
Birma, and Malay Peninsula. 
(Aiso in Japan, South China, and the Malay Islands.) 
9. Davallia speciosa. {Metf.) Rhizome wide-creeping, 2 hues 
thick, scales ferruginous dense linear-subulate ; stipe 3-5 inches, 
naked, brown, stramineous; frond deltoid, 4-pinnatifid, i-ii foot 
long ; rachis winged in upper half, pinnse lanceolate-deltoid, long- 
stalked, lowest largest 3-4 inches broad ; pinnules and segments 
