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oblongo lanceolatis acuminatis tenui-membranaceis pallide viridibus pinnatis, 
pinnis patentibus inferioribus remotis subuuciam longis rhombeo-subtriangu- 
laribus longe petiolatis profunde pinnatifidis subpinnatisve oblique obovatis 
inequaliter lobatis, sterilibus serrulatis, venis subflabellatim dichotomis apice 
soriferis, involucris orbiculari-cuneatis membranaceis upice erosa solummodo 
libera lobulis fundium marginis conformibus, rhachibus  gracilibus 
subflexuosis, pinnis supremis sublanccolatis.” 
Mr. Baker’s description 1s :— 
“53 D. (Micro.) Wilfordti, Baker ; rhizome creeping ; st. 4-6 in. 1., slender, 
naked, flexuose; frond 6-9 in. 1., 2-3 in. br., lanceolate, tripinnatifid ; lower 
pinnae deltoid, stalked, about 1 in. 1., 4 in. br., cut down to the rhachis below 
with broadly ovate-rhomboidal sharply toothed punnules ; texture herbaceous ; 
rhachis end both surfaces naked ; sorZ 2-6 to a pinnule, apical in the teeth—D. 
rhomboidea, Hook. 2nd Cent., t, 48, not Wallich.  ALicrolepia Wilfordi, Moore, © 
Has.—Japan ; gathered by both Messrs. Wilford and Oldham.” 
Kasamir: “ Boniar Nala—5,000’; wet place,” J. C. McDonell, Jane, 1897. 
DistRIB.— Asia : China—M. Tsien Mts., Paver 1884 ; Manchuria, between Mukden 
and Tung-che-Shien, H. L. M. James, 1886; Peking Mts., W. Hancock 1880: “In 
shady glens by streams, along with Cystopteris fragilis’; Dr. Bretschneider, “ Flora 
Pekinensis, 1880 (?). Korea—Am-nok River, Pbyingan Province, 18&4. Japan— 
Hakodadi, C. Wélford, No. 1037, 1859; Yokohama, &. Oldham, 7/61, No. 99, “on rich 
moist banks on the hillsides”; Mavimovicz, Iter. Sec., 1862, # V. Dickens 11. 
Yokohama and Bukenje, Jas. Bissett, 1887 (2), Yokohama, Maries drom Veitch, 1880), 
Hancock, 144, 1885 ; “Japan,” Fawrie, Nos. €12 and 4223; Japan—Mt. Akagi 
1888, from Science College, Imperial University, Japan (Jap. Wo renshida). 
This plant seems to be more common in Japan anc N.-H. China than was 
known when Sir W. Hooker described it. I cannot find that Moore did more 
than name it. But there is no record from the westward of the Peking 
Mountains except Mr. McDonell’s discovery of it in Kashmir in 1897. The 
species seems to be terrestrial, judging from Oldkam’s and Hancock’s remarks 
above quoted, as well as from McDonell’s specimens, one of which reached 
me with fine micaceous sand adhering to the thin creeping rhizome. The 
cutting and texture are like those of D. (Lewco.) smmersa, Wall, but the frond 
is narrow, and the sori are much smaller and apical. 
In reply to an inquiry as to habitat, and for further material, Mr. 
McDonell wrote, in November, 1899, that this is a terrestrial species: he found 
it growing in a shady glen, close to running walter. ‘There was very little of it, 
and he has not been to the place since. 
7. D. platyphylla, Don.; Syn. Fil. 99; C. R. 446, Microlema 
platyphylla, Bedd. H, B. 66. 
N.-W. P.: LZ. Garh.—Near Mussoorie 4,0.0’, Mackinnons, 1879. 
