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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



deltoid, with rachises winged to base, cuneate-truncate on lower 

 side, final lobes lanceolate-falcate under i line broad, with sorus on 

 upper side at base ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked ; involucre 

 cup-shaped, broader than deep, \ line broad, oblique, close to final 

 sinuses. Hook. Syn. Fil. 469. Bedd. F. B. I. Suppt. t. 352. 

 Moulmein. 



GENUS XVIIL— MICROLEPIA. (Presl.) 



(Micivs, small ; lepis, a scale, the small indusium.) 



Fronds pinnate or variously compound ; texture various ; veins 

 simple or pinnately forked ; venules free ; sori intra- or sub-marginal ; 



involucre membranaceous, half 

 cup-shaped, attached at the sides 

 as well as the base ; rhizome 

 creeping ; stipe continuous with 

 the caudex. 



I. MlCROLEPIA HOOKERIANA. 



( Wall.) Stipe a foot and 

 more long, pubescent, at length 

 glabrous ; rachis hirsute-pubes- 

 cent ; fronds lanceolate pinnate ; 

 pinnae subpetiolate lanceolate from 

 a broad hastate base, gradually 

 acuminated submembranaceous, 

 duplicate-crenated, sparingly hairy 

 on the costa and veins beneath ; 

 veins parallel, dichotomous; sori 

 approximate, forming a continued 

 line at the base of the crenatures 

 of the margin; involucres half cup-shaped; stipes and rachis 

 pubescent-hirsute. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 97. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 101. 

 Sylhet, Upper Assam, Khasya and Mikir Hills. 

 , (Also in Hong Kong.) 



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MICROLEPIA HOOKERIANA 



{Wall.) 



