Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 15 



2. MlCROLEPIA PIXXATA. 



Yar. luzonica. (Book.) Pinnae lobed ; lobes up to if 

 inch long, erecto-patent. 



Larut, Perak, 2,000-3,000 feet alt. (King, No. 2,144.) 

 Dr. King's specimens differ from those of Java and the 

 Philippines and from Sir W. Hooker's fig. in Sp. Fil., in having 

 only the central portion of the pinnae expanded into lobes i-if 

 inch long on each side, there being a long caudate apex, and a 

 long entire basal portion. 



6. aIicrolepia Kurzii. Perak. (Dr. King's collectors, No. 

 2,397-) 



ioa. Microlepia molucgana. (Bl.) Stipe strong, erect, 

 about 1 foot high ; fronds 2-4 feet long, 9-18 inches broad, 

 deltoid, quadripinnatifid ; lower pinnae lanceolate, 9-12 inches long, 

 4-6 inches broad, the segments of the pinnules cut down to the 

 rachis into broadly-toothed oblong lobes in the lower part ; 

 texture subcoriaceous ; both surfaces naked ; sori 1-6 in a lobe 

 placed in the teeth, small, submarginal. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 99. 

 D. imequalis y minor. Hook. Sp. Fil. i. p. 180, tab. 58. D. 

 campyleura, Kze. 



Khasia. (Griffith.) Perak, 3,000-4,000 feet alt. (Scortechini.) 

 (Also in the Malay, Philippine, and Polynesian Islands.) 



1. Stexoloma chinexsis. Simla. (Trotter.) 



1. Cvstopteris fragilis. Cashmir, 5 ,000 feet alt. (Trotter.) 



CYSTOPTERK MONTANA. (Link.) " Rhizome wide- 

 creeping ; stipe slender, erect, 6-9 inches long ; frond about 6 

 inches each way, deltoid, quadripinnatifid ; lowest pinnules deltoid 

 lanceolate, i-ii inches long, \-\ inch broad ; segments cut down 



