TAB. XLVIII. 
DAVALLIA (CuNEAT.®) RHOMBOIDEA, Hook, (not Wall.) 
Caudice gracili elongato repente atro nitidissimo fragili, sti- 
pitibus sparsis 3-4 uncias longis stramineis nitidis basi ebe- 
neis, frondibus 6-8 uncias longis oblongo-lanceolatis acu- 
minatis tenui-membranaceis pallide viridibus pinnatis, pin- 
nis patentibus inferioribus remotis subunciam lono-is rhom- 
beo-subtriangularibus longe petiolatis profunde pinnatifidis 
subpinnatisque lobis pinnulisve oblique obovatis inequaliter 
lobatis, sterilibus serrulatis, yenis subflabellatim dichotomis 
apice soriferis, involucris orbiculari-cuneatis membranaceis 
apice erosa solummodo libera lobulis frondium marginis 
conformibus, rachibus gracilibus subflexuosis, pinnis su- 
premis sublanceolatis. 
Hab. Hakodadi, Japan, Wilford, v. 1037. 
A very elegant and peculiar species of Davallia, which I 
am disposed to refer to the section Cuneatce ; it is quite dif- 
ferent from any described one, and only known to us through 
our collector, Mr. Wilford. 
Fertile plant ; nat. size. Fig. 1. Portion of a pinna with 
son ’ ma gnified, f. 2. Sori more magnified, one representing 
the involucre removed : more magnified. 
Cent. 2. t. 48. 
