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3-4 of an inch long. Texture leathery. Sori 
half-cylindrica] with no horn. 
Distribution: Fiji Islands, plentiful. 
Cultivated in Bombay gardens. A very fine 
species. 
Genus IX.—MIcrRo.Lepia PRESL. 
(Deriv. Gr. Micros, small; Jepis, scale—in 
allusion to the small indusium.) 
Indusium membranaceous, half cup-shaped, 
attached at the sides and base. Rhizome 
creeping ; stipe continuous with the rhizome. 
(a) Surfaces hairy when young, naked 
when adult. Ultimate segments broad, blunt- 
ish toothed, oblong triangular. 
1. M., platyphylla. 
(0) Surtaces hairy, pinnules or ultimate 
segments rhomboidal. 
(2) Frond bipinnate, lanceolate; indusium 
hairy. 
= 2. M. strigosa. 
(#2) Frond 3-4 pinnatifid, ovate or tri- 
angular; indusium hairy or naked. 
3. M. spelunce. 
