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and rather bluntly toothed, ol)lon?, rhomhoidal pinnl. ; texture suhcoriaceous ; 

 reins beneath pioniinently raised and, like the rachises, more or less hairy ; sori 

 2 to 12 to a j)innule, small, placed at the base of the sinuses, — D. Kliasiyana, 

 Hk. Sp. 1. ;). 173. t. 47. A. atid 57. A. — (3, D. rhomboidca. Wall. ; similar to a 

 in texture and hairiness, but ratber larger in all its parts, lower /)2h?«^. lanceolate- 

 deltoid, 1 .J in. 1., cut down nearly to the raciiis into oblong lobes. — D. poly- 

 podioides y and <J, Ilk. Sp. Fll. \. p. 182. D. proxima, Bluriie. 



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.) platj/phylla, Don ; rhizome creeping, stout, scaly ; st. 2-3 ft. 1., 

 firm, erect ; /;•. 8-4 ft. 1., tripinnatifid ; lower pinnae 12-15 in. 1., 6-9 in. br., 

 lanceolate, with distant linear lanceolate />/«»/., which are cut nearly to the 

 rachis below ijito broad bluntish, tootiied, 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. loiichitidea, Wall. 

 Hk. Sp. 1. p. 173. t. 4G. B. Exot. F. t. 10. 



Hab. Throughout Hindostan from Cejlon to the Himalayas. 



59. D. (Micro.) urophi/Ua, Ilk. ; st. strong, erect, 2-3 ft. 1. ; fr. 2-3 ft. I., 

 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. — Ilk. Fil. 

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



Hab. Bootan, Griffith. 



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

 erect, naked ; fr. 2-3 ft. 1., lanceolate-deltoid, tripi niatihd ; low^v pinnce 9-12 in. 1., 

 8-4 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 suhcoriaceous ; sori 

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

 Zej/l. p. 238. non Blmne. D. Thwaitesii, BaJccr, edit. 1 . 



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

 blunter, and the sori are smaller. 



61. D. (Micro.) incequalis, 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. 8-5 in. 1., 1-2 in. br. ; lower seffm. 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. — Ilk. Sp. l.p. 180. cxcl. 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 

 Etlingshausen. 



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

 2-3 ft. 1., 9-18 in. br., deltoid, quadripinnatifid ; lower pinnce 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 suhcoriaceous, both surfaces 

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

 iuEcqualis, y minor, Hk. Sp. Fil. l.p. 180. t. 58. A. D, eampyleura, Kunze, edit. 1. 



