50 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



pinnatifid with the segments entire or crenated, the remaining pinnae 

 pinnatifid with the segments crenated y sori at the apex of the 

 superior veinlets of each segment, indusium as in the genus, veins 

 terminating within the margin. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 90. Bedd. F. B. I. 

 t. 96. 



This very delicate species was discovered near Moulmein, on 

 limestone rocks, by the Rev. C. S. Parish. 



Moulmein. 



2. Leucostegia membranulosa. ( Wall) Caudex hispid, with 

 very long, slender, subulate, rigid, membranaceous scales ; fronds 

 9-15 inches long, thin and membranaceous ovate-lanceolate and as 

 well as the slender stipe and rachis pubescent-hirsute, bipinnatifid ; 

 pinnae lanceolate, their rachis winged ; pinnules lanceolate pinnatifid, 

 the segments ovate-lanceolate subfalcate, very acute entire or rarely 

 toothed; involucres small, ovate-subrotund acute, very thin and 

 membranaceous fixed by the broad base, the rest free. Hook. Syn. 

 Fil. p. 91. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 98. 



Very like multidentata, but differs in the scales of the rhizome, 

 and in the fronds being much less compound ; in this they are 

 pinnate, with the pinnae deeply pinnatifid, in multidentata bipinnate, 

 with the pinnae deeply pinnatifid. 



Nepal, Kumaon, Moharguri Pass, 6,500 feet. 



(Also in Yunan.) 



3. Leucostegia multidentata. ( Wall, undo- Aspidium.) 

 Rhizome stout-creeping ; scales ovate-acute ; fronds with the stipe up 

 to 2 feet long and 1 foot broad, deltoid, bipinnate, with the pinnules 

 deeply pinnatifid, down to a winged rachis, texture herbaceous; 

 rachises pubescent above, often furnished with a few distant large 

 ovate scales, rachises and segments beneath, generally glandularly 

 pubescent; sori 2-12 to a segment, placed at the base of its teeth, 

 on the upper side of the central vein. Wall. Cat. 346. Microlepia 

 pteropus. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 313. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 91. 



Himalayas, Nepal and Bhotan, 5,000-8,000 feet ; Khasya, 

 4,000-5,000 feet, common. 



