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D A V A L L I A CON T IGUA .
FILICES.— G y r a t æ ? B r . P o l y p o d ia c e æ . K a u lf. F i l ic e s v e ræ . Willd.
Gen. C h ak . D A V A L L I A , Sm. S o ri subrotundi (vel in lineola verticali) margini plerumque
approximati. Involucrum superficiarium, e x apice venae unica? ortum, latcribua ve l lata basi
adnatum, cxterius e t verticaliter libcrum. B r .
D a v a l l i a contigua ; fronde stipitata simplici glabra pectinato-pinnatifida, laciniis linearibus integris
vel subcrcnatis, infirais brevissimis, soris solitariis vel paucis in apicem laciniarum.
Davallia contigua. S iv a rtz. S yn . F il. p . \ 3 0 . TVilld. S p . P L v .ò . p . AQb. S p ren g . S y s t. V eget.
V. 4. p . 118. Blum e E num. P L J a v . v . l . p . 230.
Trichomanes contiguum. “ Forst. P ro d r. n. 463.”
Hab . Iu Insulis Oceani Pacifici. Forster. In arboribus montium Java;. B lume. In Zeylonia.
— Emerson, M .D .
Caudex, ut videtur, brevis, fusco-squamosus, fibras nigras, ramosas emittens.
S tipes v ix unciam longus, superne laciniis brevissimis, decurrentibus subalatus.
Frondes spithamoea; et ultra, rigidoe, subcoriaceoe, circumscriptione lanceolatoe, basi apiceque attenuatoe, simplices,
profunde pinnatifidoe, laciniis patentibus linearibus vel lineari-oblongis, obtusis, apice nunc, raro, subcrenatis
soriferis, infimis atque supremis brevissimis. S tipes Rachiscpie glabræ (fide Blumii, hirtelloe).
Soi'i parvi ad apicem laciniarum, plerumque, nostris exemplaribus, solitarii.
In volucra ovalia, vel ovali-obionga, nervum terminantia, coriacea, cuculiata, apice dehiscentia.
Capsidæ longe stipitatoe, sphoericæ.
Semina subrotunda, fusca.
Fig . 1. Lacinia cum soro. f. 2. Involucri sectio. f. S. Capsula, f. 4 . Semina:— magn. auct.
Allied to D . Eme rsoni, figured at Tab. 105 o f this work, but having much deeper and narrower
laciniæ to th e frond, n o t entire at th e base and the extremity, and furnished with a distinct stipes.
Fo r a lo n g time it was supposed to be peculiar to th e islands o f the Pacific ; but, recently.
Dr. Blume has found it in Java, and Dr. Emerson, to whom wc are indebted for the specimen
here figured and described, in the Island o f Ceylon.