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and rather bluntly toothed, oblong, rhomboidal pinnl. ; texture subcoriaceous ; 

 veins beneath prominently raised and, like the rachises, more or less hairy ; sori 

 2 to 12 to a pinnule, small, placed at tlie base of the sinuses. — D. Khasiyana, 

 Hh. Sp. 1. p. 173. *. 47. A. and 57. A. — j3, Z>. rhomboidea, WaU. ; similar to a 

 in texture and hairiness, but rather larger in all its parts, lower pinnl. lanceolate- 

 deltoid, I5 in. 1., cut down nearly to the rachis into oblong lobes. — D. poly- 

 podioides y and S, Hk. Sp. Fil. I.p. 182. D. proxima, Blume. 



Hab. North of India, ascending in the Himalayas to 3-5000 ft., Ceylon, Japan, 

 Malayan Peninsula and Isles, S. E. China, Sandwich and Fiji Islands. — This is very 

 similar to the last in habit, but is at least bipinnatifid. 



68. D. (Micro.) platyph^lla, Don ; rhizome creeping, stout, scaly ; st. 2-3 ft. 1., 

 firm, erect ; fir. 3-4 ft. 1., tripinnatifid ; lower pinnw 12-15 in. 1., 6-9 in. br., 

 lanceolate, with distant linear lanceolate pinnl., which are cut nearly to the 

 rachis below into broad bluntish, toothed, oblong-deltoid lobes ; texture sub- 

 coriaceous, both surfaces naked ; sori 2 to 12 to a segment, placed one in each 

 tooth a short distance from the edge, about a line across. — D. lonchitidea, WaU. 

 HTc. Sp. 1. p. 173. t. 46. B. Exot. F. 1. 19. 



Hab. Throughout Hiudostan from Ceylon to the Himalayas. 



69. D. (Micro.) urophylla, Hk. ; st. strong, erect, 2-3 ft. 1. ; fr. 2-3 ft. 1., 

 tripinnatifid ; lower pinnce 9-12 in. 1., 6-8 in. br., lanceolate, with distant lan- 

 ceolate lower pinnl., which are cut down to the rachis below into ovate-deltoid, 

 acuminate, unequal-sided broadly-toothed lobes ; texture coriaceous, both surfaces 

 naked ; sori submarginal, one to each of the lower sinuses of the lobes. — Hk. Fil. 

 Exot.t. 19. Tiote. Microlepia caudigera, Moore. 



Hab. Bootan, Orifith. 



60. D. (Micro.) majuscula, Lowe ; rhizome creeping, tomentose; st. 6-12 in. I., 

 erect, naked ; fr. 2-3 ft. 1., lanceolate-deltoid, tripi inatifid ; lower pinnce 9-12 in. 1., 

 3-4 in. br., lanceolate ; pinnl. lanceolate-acuminate, cut down nearly or quite to 

 the rachis into blunt slightly crenated oblong lobes ; rachis and both surfaces 

 slightly hairy, the upper bright-green, shining ; texture subcoriaceous ; sori 

 small, submarginal, 2 to 12 to a segment. — D. proxima, Thwaifes, Enum. PI, 

 Zet/l. p. 238. non Blume. D. Thwaitesii, Baker, edit. 1 . 



Hab. Ceylon. — This comes nearest to urophylla, but the segments are shorter and 

 blunter, and the sori are smaller. 



61. D. (Micro.) inasqualis, Kunze ; rhizome creeping ; st. stout, 2-3 ft. 1. ; fr. 

 2-3 ft. 1., 12-18 in. br. ; ovate-lanceolate, quadripinnatifid ; lower pinnce 9-12 

 in. 1., 4-8 in. br. ; with lanceolate pinnl. 3-6 in. 1., 1-2 in. br. ; lower segm. cut 

 down nearly to the rachis with oblong toothed lower lobes ; texture herbaceous, 

 both surfaces naked ; sori 2 to 12 to a segment, small, placed in the teeth at a 

 short distance from the margin. — Hk. Sp. I.p. 180. excl. var. y. t. 57. B. 



Hab. Tropical America from Jamaica and Q-aadelonpe, southward to Peru and Eio 

 Janeiro. We include here Microlepia imequalis, Pohlicma, and pigricams, as figured by 

 Ettingshausen. 



62. D. (Micro.) moluccana, Blume ; st. strong, erect, about 1 foot high ; fr. 

 2-3 ft. 1., 9-18 in. br., deltoid, quadripinnatifid ; lower pinnce lanceolate, 9-12 

 in. 1., 4-6 in. br., the s^m. of the pinnules cut down to the rachis into broadly- 

 toothed oblong lobes in the lower part ; texture subcoriaceous, both surfaces 

 naked ; sori 1 to 6 in a lobe, placed in the teeth, small, submarginal. — D. 

 insequalis, y minor, Hk. Sp. Fil. 1. p. 180. t. 58. A. D. campyleura, Kume, edit. 1. 



