TAB. LIV. 
Davallia (§ Dakeoide/e) FCENICULACEA, Hook. 
Frondibus sesquipedalibus (et ultra?) subcoriaceo-lierbaceis 
late ovatis acuminatis 4-pinnatis, divisionibus primariis cir- 
cumscriptione ovato-lanceolatis tenui-acuminatis 6-8 polli- 
caribus, secundariis tertiariisquelanceolatis segmentis angu s _ 
tissime linearibus ultimis vlx lineam longis subclavatis, soris 
copiosis, involucris sobtariis suburceolatis ad marginem 
interiorem infra apicern oblique sitis. 
Hab. NavitiLevu of tbeFiji Islands, in woods on mountains, 
Milne, in tbe Voy. of tbe Herald, under Capt. Denham, B.N. 
The most finely and deeply cut of all tbe genus Davallia. 
The resemblance to fennel leaves is indeed weakened by the 
very copious sori, which are situated on the interior margin 
of most of the ultimate segments, and so prominent, and so 
oblique in direction, that a fertile segment not inaptly 
resembles a tobacco-pipe, with a crest or wing on one side. 
A very obscure costa passes through all the segments ; indeed 
the ramification is of that character that it may be as cor- 
rectly described 3-4-pinnatifid as pinnate. 
T ab . LIY. Fig. 1 . Primary branch or division of Davallia 
fceniculacea ; natural size. f. 2. Ultimate segments, one fertile, 
— magnified ; f. 3. Fertile segment, more magnified. 
Cent. 2. t. 54. 
