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DAVALLIA POLYANTHA.
H o o k e r . M o o r e .
P L A T E X X I I I . V O L . V I I I .
Microlepia polyantlia,
D a v a llia divaricata,
F e e .
B l t j j i e . J. S m i t h . P e e s l .
{Not 0/ H o o k e e , S c h l e c h t e n d a l ,
or L i n k . )
D a v a llia—In honour o f Edmund Davall, a Swiss Botanist.
P o lyan tlia—Many-flowered.
T h i s b e a u t i f u l e x h i b i t i o n p l a n t s h o u ld b e i n e v e r y c o l le c t io n .
T h e f r o n d s b e i n g e x c e e d in g ly h a n d s o m e , t h e f e r t i l e a n d s t e r i l e
o n e s so d if f e r e n t, th e s h a d e s o f g r e e n , a n d i n y o u n g e r f r o n d s th e
t i n t s o f p i n k a n d r e d so v a r io u s , a n d th e p l a n t i t s e l f so r e a d i ly
g r o w n , t h a t i t is a u n iv e r s a l f a v o u r i te .
A n evergreen stove F e rn .
Na tiv e of th e Malayan Archipelago and Singapore.
In tro d u c e d from Ja v a in 1847, h y IMessrs. Kollisson, of
Tooting.
T h e fronds, which are glabrous, are triangula rly-elongate in
shape, triq u ad rip im ia te , th e pinnie as well as th e pinnules
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