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DANÆA ELLIPTICA.
FILICES.— M a r a t t i e æ . Bory. M a r a t t i a c e æ . Kaulf. P o ] i o p t e r i d e s . Willd.
G e n . C h a r . D A N Æ A , Sm . S o r t lin e a re s , d o rs a le s , tran sv e rs i, pa ra lle li. C a p s u læ in se rie s
g em in a ta s a re te c o n n a tæ , su p e rn e p o ro d eh is c en te s . I n d u s i u m su p e rfic ia rium so ro s c in g cn s .
(A sp lcn ii S p. L i n n )
D a n æ a e llip ti c a ; fro n d e p in n a ta , ra ch i n o d o s a v ix a la ta , p in n is b r e v ite r p e tio la tis e llip tic o -o b lo iig is
a c um in a tis su b in tc g c rrim is b a s i obliq u e a cu tis , fe rtilib u s o b lo n g o -la n c c o la tis .
D a n æ a e llip tic a . S r n i t h i n R e e s ' C y c l.
F ilix m a jo r, &c. S lo a n e 's J a m a i c a , t . Al. f . l .
H a b . In d ia O c c id e n ta li. J am a ic a . S lo a n e . S m i t h . I iisu la S a n c ti V in c e n tii. R e v . L . G u ild in g .
Slipes vix pedalis, dorso convexas, facie saperaa canaliculatus, infra frondem nodosus, pubescens, demum glaber.
Frondes pedales et ultra, erectæ, circumscriptione ovatoe, pinnatæ, pinnis inferioribus exacte oppositis, superioribus
nunc subalternis : plantee sterilis semipedalibus, duas uncias latis, eUiptico-oblongis, acuminatis, subundulato-
crenatis, sed vix serratis, basi inoequaliter acutis, in petiolum brevem attenuatis, glabris, opacis, luride viridibus,
subtus pallidioribus, costatis, costa subtus hic et illic fasdculato-pubescentibus, parallelo-venosis, venis
numerosis transversalibus basi furcatis. Rachis ad insertionem pinnarum nodosa. P ia n ta fe rtilis, p in n a
oblongo-IanceoIntfD, sterilibus minores, basi apiceque acutæ.
Fnictificaiio omnino ut in Z). alata (Tab. X V III.).
Fig. 1. Sorus. f. 2 . Semina:—magn. auct.
O u r frie n d M r . G u ild in g , w h o se ems to liv e su rro im d c d b y th e n o b le s t o f th e tro p ic a l F e rn s ,
m a rk e d th is fine sp e c ie s o f D a n æ a as d is tin c t b o th from D . a la ta an d D . n o d o s a . W i th th e la tte r ,
in d e ed , th e r e is n o d a n g e r o f its b e in g c o n fo u n d e d ; a n d S ir J am e s Sm ith , w h o c e rta in ly ap p e a rs to
h a v e h a d t h e s am e p la n t in view, in d e s c rib in g h is D . e llip ti c a , we ll o b s c n ’cs, th a t th e g r e a te r b re a d th
o f th e p in næ a n d th e ir b e in g a cu te , n o t c o rd a te , a t th e b a s e , w ill a fford th e d is tin g u ish in g c h a ra c te
r s . T h is g r e a te r p ro p o r tio n a te b r e a d th e x is ts in th e f e rtile as vvell a s th e b a r r e n p in n æ , a n d even
in th e fro n d s , so as to giv e a c h a ra c te r to th e p la n t a t firs t view. S lo a n e ’s fig u re is v e ry c h a ra c te ris tic
fo r th e b a r r e n frond.
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