64 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



2. Microlepia pinnata. (Cav.) Rhizome creeping, fur- 

 nished with fibrillose scales; stipe strong, erect, 6-12 inches long, 

 glossy; fronds 9-15 inches long, 4-8 inches broad, lanceolate- 

 pinnate, glabrous ; pinna? slightly toothed, 6 inches long, \ inch broad, 

 coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, gradually acuminate, obliquely acuminate 

 at the base ; sori one to each tooth, small, submarginal ; veins sunk, 

 inconspicuous, generally forked ; involucres small, half-cup-shaped. 

 Hook. Syn. Fil p. 98. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 14. 



Anamallay Mountains ; Malay Peninsula. 

 (Also in Java and Polynesian Islands.) 



3. Microlepia marginalis. (Thunb. under Folypodzum.) Fronds 

 broadly ovate-lanceolate, firm, membranaceous ; pinna? elongate, 

 lanceolate, subfalcate, acuminate, pinnatifid-lobate, the acuminated 

 apices serrated, pubescent- villous beneath, most so on the cost a and 

 prominent veins, unequally cuneate at the base, and subpetiolate ; 

 lobes acute crenate- dentate ; veins pinnated ; sori solitary in the axils 

 of the smaller and upper lobes or serratures, and distant from the 

 margin, marginal on the small teeth of the larger lobes ; involucres 

 broad half-cup-shaped, densely villous ; rachis and stipe downy, the 

 latter at length glabrous ; rhizome creeping, villous ; stipe 1-2 feet 

 long, erect, strong; fronds 18-24 inches long, 9-15 inches broad, 

 once pinnate. Polyp, marginale, Thunb. Fl. Japan, p. 337. Micro- 

 lepia scabra, Don. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 102. 



Nepal and Kumaon, Khasya, Mikir Hids. 

 (Also in Japan and Formosa.) 



Var. )3 calvescens. (Hook.) Pinna? narrower and more deeply 

 pinnatifid, nearly glabrous beneath, except the strigose midrib. 

 Davallia calvescens. Hook. Sfi. Fil. I. p. 172, /. 48 B. D. urophylla 

 (Wallich), Bedd. F. B. I. I. 103. 



Kumaon. 



4. Microlepia urophylla. (Hook.) Rhizome creeping; stipe 

 strong, erect, 2-3 feet long ; fronds bipinnate, tripinnatifid, coriaceous, 

 shining above and beneath, but pubescent on the rachises below; 



