230 35. MICROLEPIA. 



rather sessile, passing gradually into the lobes of the terminal pinna, 

 oblique at the base, the upper base truncate, auricled, the lower cuneate; 

 largest pinnae to + 10 cm. long, + 1 V4 cm. broad at the base (excl. 

 the auricles). Texture herbaceous or submembranaceous ; surfaces naked ; 

 costae prominent, hirsuto-fibrillose above, less so beneath; veins once or 

 twice forked, sparingly hirsuto-setose beneath. Sori small, close or 

 approximate, forming a continued submarginal line; indusium semicupul- 

 iform, ± as broad as deep, the free edge somewhat rounded, 

 Java; South Ghina^ North India. 



(3a) II. «lennstae«ltioi«les, Copel., in Phillip. Journ., I, Suppl., 

 148, tab. IV; Dennstaedtia dennstaedtioides, Copel., 1. c, IF, 126; — var. 

 arthrotricha, Copel., 1. c, IIF, 84. 



Ehizome creeping, naked or nearly so. Stipes 13—20 cm. long or 

 longer, brown, naked. Fronds deltoid in outline, 40 — 60 cm. long or 

 longer, + half as broad, 4-pinnatifid. Pinnae lanceolate, oblique, acute 

 to caudate, toothed at the apex, the rachis marginate or narrowly-winged. 

 Pinnulae lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, or acuminate with the point obtuse, 

 the base obliquely cuneate-truncate, cut down to a winged rachis into 

 entire or lobed, oblong, blunt, decurrent tertiary segments; lobes oblong 

 or obovate, blunt, entire or toothed. Texture herbaceous; rachises and 

 surfaces naked. Sori small, intramarginal, at the base of the ultimate 

 lobes or teeth, on the anterior side ; indusium naked, or sUghtly hairy 

 at the very base. 



War. artlirotriclia : Stipe and rachis hairy with articulated 

 hairs, at length not rarely naked and roughish by the persistent bases of 

 the hairs; surfaces more or less shortly pubescent. 



Luzon, Mindanao. 



(4a?) II. Hancei, Pfuntl, in Arb. Bot. Gart. Bresl., I, 35 ; DawaMm 

 polypodioides, Benth. (not Don), Flor. Hongk., 461. 



Rhizome creeping. Fronds 60— 90 cm. long, 3 — 4-pinnate. Pinnae 

 distant, the 1—2 lowest pair smaller than the following which are often 

 15 — 20 cm. long, gradually diminishing to the apex. Segments lanceolate, 

 oblong or obovate, the larger ones deeply lobed with obovate, obtuse 

 lobes. Texture flaccid; surfaces more or less pubescent. Sori solitary 

 under each sinus of the lobed segments or near the margin on the 

 entire ones; indusiam short and broad. 



Borneo; Hongkong, Khasia. 



