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Classification and Description 
Obs. The old fronds of this plant become, in time, quite 
glabrous, and pinnse more distant. 
Var. hispida ; a variety which is much larger, grows on the 
mountain range of Wananake, near Waoganei Bay, E. Coast. 
This variety attains to the height of 5 — 6 feet, including 
stipe, and is nearly quadripinnate ; its pinnules, too, are more 
distant, segments oblong-linear and pinnatifid, and hair of 
stipe and frond much more rigid, and of a dark brown-black 
colour. I am almost inclined to consider it a distinct species, 
but wait the examination of better specimens than those at 
present in my possession. Observed at Wananake, 1839; 
and, again, in 1842. MSS ., W . C . 
Davallia , Sm. 
Sporangium apicibus venarum imposita, soros sub-rotun- 
dos, margin! approxirnatos formantia. Indusium venae con- 
tinuum, lata basi v. etiam marginibus adnatum, vertice 
extrorsum liberum. Endl , 
25. D. Nov^-Zelandije, n. sp. Plant, few fronded, 
sub-erect, lax, sub-membranaceous, terrestrial. Frond, 
ovate-lanceolate or deltoid, bi- tripinnate, upper surface gla- 
brous, under slightly villous, 7 — 10 inches. Pinnules ; pri- 
maries, ovate-lanceolate, somewhat falcate, acuminate, acute, 
unequal, petiolate, alternate ; petiole, channelled, margined 
towards apex : secondaries, oblong-lanceolate, acute, unequal, 
petiolate, alternate ; uppermost decurrent, margined : sub- 
divisions, falcate-lanceolate, cuneate at base, slightly petio- 
late and pinnatifid : lobes, entire, acuminate, acute, decurrent, 
somewhat bordered : veins , pinnate-pinnatifid, simple, ter- 
minating abruptly within margin. Sori, sub-marginal, on 
inner margins and near apices of secondary and lower lobes, 
never terminal. Involucre, triangular-ovate, membranaceous, 
truncate, laciniated ; laciniations sub-acute ; apex of lobe 
revolute, sub-laciniated, and converging. Rachis, channelled, 
slightly dexuose, glabrous. Stipe, brittle, channelled, roughish 
hispid and scaly at base, 5—8 inches* Caudex, creeping. 
