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Classification and Description 
Obs . The old fronds of this plant become, in time, quite 
glabrous, and pinna* more distant. 
Var . hispida ; a variety which is much larger, grows on the 
mountain range of Wananake, near Wanganei Bay, E. Coast. 
This variety attains to the height of 5—G 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, margini approximates formantia. Indusium venae con¬ 
tinuum, lata basi v. etiam marginibus adnatum, vertice 
extrorsum liberum. Endl. 
25. D. Novje-Zelandi®, n. sp. Plant , few fronded, 
sub-crect, lax, sub-membranaceous, terrestrial. Frond , 
ovate-lanceolate or deltoid, bi- tripinnatc, 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; lnciniations sub-acute ; apex of lobe 
revolute, sub-laciniated, and converging. Rachis, channelled, 
slightly flexuose,glabrous. Stipe, brittle, channelled, roughish 
hispid and scaly at base, 5—8 inches. Caudex , creeping* 
