18. DAVALLIA, MICROLEPIA. 99 



and rather bluntly toothed, oblong, rhomboidal pinnL ; texture subcoriaceous ; 

 veins beneath prominently raised and, like the rachises, more or less hairy ; sori 

 2 to 12 to a pinnule, small, placed at the base of the sinuses. D. Khasiyana, 

 Hk. Sp. 1. p. 173. t. 47. A. and 57. A. j3, D. rhomboidea, Wall. ; similar to a 

 in texture and hairiness, but rather larger in all its parts, lower pinnl. lanceolate- 

 deltoid, 1^ in. 1., cut down nearly to the rachis into oblong lobes. D. poly- 

 podioides y and S, Hk. Sp. FiL 1. p. 182. D. proxima, Bfame. 



Hab. North of India, ascending in the Himalayas to 3-5000 ft., Ceylon, Japan, 

 Malayan Peninsula and Isles, S. E. China, Sandwich and Fiji Islands. This is very 

 similar to the last in habit, but is at least bipinnatifid. 



58. D. (Micro.) platypliylla, Don ; rhizome creeping, stout, scaly ; st. 2-3 ft. 1., 

 firm, erect ; fr. 3-4 ft. 1., tripinnatifid ; lower pinnae 12-15 in. 1., 6-9 in. br., 

 lanceolate, with distant linear lanceolate pinnl., which are cut nearly to the 

 rachis below into broad bluntish, toothed, oblong-deltoid lobes ; texture sub- 

 coriaceous, both surfaces naked ; sori 2 to 12 to a segment, placed one in each 

 tooth a short distance from the edge, about a line across. D. lonchitidea, Wall. 

 Hk. Sp. 1. p. 173. t. 46. B. Exot. F. t. 19. 



Hab. Throughout Hindostan from Ceylon to the Himalayas. 



59. D. (Micro.) urophylla, Hk. ; st. strong, erect, 2-3 ft. 1. ; fr. 2-3 ft. 1., 

 tripinnatifid ; lower pinnce 9-12 in. 1., 6-8 in. br., lanceolate, with distant lan- 

 ceolate lower pinnl., which are cut down to the rachis below into ovate-deltoid, 

 acuminate, unequal-sided broadly-toothed lobes; texture coriaceous, both surfaces 

 naked ; sori submarginal, one to each of the lower sinuses of the lobes. Hk. FiL 

 Exot. t. 19. note. Microlepia caudigera, Moore. 



Hab. Bootan, Griffith. 



60. D. (Micro.) majuscula, Lowe ; rhizome creeping, tomentose; st. 6-12 in. 1., 

 erect, naked ; fr. 2-3 ft. 1., lanceolate-deltoid, tripi matifid ; lower pinnce 9-12 in. 1., 

 3-4 in. br., lanceolate ; pinnl. lanceolate-acuminate, cut down nearly or quite to 

 the rachis into blunt slightly crenated oblong lobes ; rachis and both surfaces 

 slightly hairy, the upper bright-green, shining ; texture subcoriaceous ; sori 

 small, submarginal, 2 to 12 to a segment. D. proxima, Thwaites, Enum. PI. 

 Zeyl p. 238. non Blume. D. Thwaitesii, Baker, edit. 1 . 



Hab. Ceylon. This comes nearest to uropJiylla, but the segments are shorter and 

 blunter, and the sori are smaller. 



61. D. (Micro.) inasqualis, Kunze ; rhizome creeping ; st. stout, 2-3 ft. 1.; fr. 

 2-3 ft. 1., 12-18 in. br. ; ovate-lanceolate, quadripinnatifid ; lower pinnce 9-12 

 in. 1., 4-8 in. br. ; with lanceolate pinnl. 3-5 in. 1., 1-2 in. br. ; lower segm. cut 

 down nearly to the rachis with oblong toothed lower lobes ; texture herbaceous, 

 both surfaces naked ; sori 2 to 12 to a segment, small, placed in the teeth at a 

 short distance from the margin. Hk. Sp. I. p. 180. excl. var. y. t. 57. B. 



Hab. Tropical America from Jamaica and Guadeloupe, southward to Peru and Rio 

 Janeiro. We include here Microlepia incequalis, Pohliana, and nigricans, as figured by 

 Ettingshausen. 



62. D. (Micro.) moluccana, Blume; st. strong, erect, about 1 foot high; fr. 

 2-3 ft. 1., 9-18 in. br., deltoid, quadripinnatifid ; lower pinnae lanceolate, 9-12 

 in. 1., 4-6 in. br., the segm. of the pinnules cut down to the rachis into broadly- 

 toothed oblong lobes in the lower part ; texture sabcoriaceous, both surfaces 

 naked ; sori 1 to 6 in a lobe, placed in the teeth, small, submarginal. D. 

 insequalis, y minor, Hk. Sp. Fil. 1. p. 180. t. 58. A. D. campyleura, Kunze, edit. 1. 



