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9. DAvaLra speciosa, Jfedt.—Rhizome wide creeping 2 lines thick, scales ferruginous, dense linear-subulate, stipes 5-5 
inches long naked, brown stramineous, frond deltoid, 4-pinnatifid, 1-14 feet long rachis winged in upper. half, pinnee lanceolate- 
deltoid long stalked, lowest largest 3-4 inches broad, piunules and segments deltoid with rachises winged to base, cuneate-truncate on. 
~ jJower side, final lobes lanceolate-falcate under 1 line broad, with sorus on upper side at base, texture subcoriaceous, surfaces naked, 
- involucre cup-shaped broader than deep, 4 line broad, oblique close to final sinuses.—Auhn Linnea 36, D. 145 ; Syn. Lil. — edit. De 
469, Moulmein. Ferns British India, PI, go2) (small fragment only). 
GENUS 18. MICROLEPIA. Prusu. 
1. MicroveriA HooKkERIANA, Wall.—North India. Ferns British I ndia, tab. 101. 
2, MicRoLEPIA PINNATA, Cav.—South India, Malay Peninsula. ferns Southern India, tab, 14. 
3. MIcRoLEPIA MARGINALIS, Thunb.—North India. Ferns British India, tab. 102. (scabra). 
4. MicRoLeria stricosa, Sw.—General. Ferns Southern India, tab. 255. 
5, MIcRoLEPIA PROXIMA, Bl.—General. erns Southern India, tab. 15. (polypodioides.) (This is rhomboidea of Wall). 
6. MtcroLEePra HIRTA, Kaulf.—General. erns Southern India, tab. 256. 
7. MuicroLeria spELUNCH, Z.—Fronds up to 9 feet long, quadripinnate, pinnee up to 3 feet or more long By 12-14 inches 
broad, very ‘flaccid, furnished on both sides with a few weak hairs, texture inci Beagecas, pinnules lanceolate, acuminate, rachis pro- 
minentl y winged, secondary pinnules lanceolate, 6-10 lines long cut down 4 or 2 towards the costa into oblongo-faleate, blunt segments - 
which are again bluntly lobed, the basal segment on the upper side being somewhat larger than the others, sori one to each segment near. 
the sinus (or often 2 to the larger basal segment) terminal on the lowest veinlet. North India. ferns British India, tab, 353. 
This very large flaccid Himalayan species does not grow in Southern India, and I have never found it in, or seen speciméns 
from, Ceylon ; it has been much confounded with the larger forms of proxima, B/., (rhomboidea, Wadd.) and it waslumped with that by 
Sir W. Hooker, under the name of polypodioides, and Baker in the new edition of the Synopsis lumps proxima with strigosa which, [ 
am sure, is a mistake, the specimens from which my figure of spelunco are taken were gathered by Mr. Clarke at Rishop (3,500 feet) 
near Darjeeling, I have never seen the species growing, but from its very large size and very flaccid texture, it must, I think, be easily 
distinguished from hirta, but proxima hirta and spelunce are all ones allied and the Kew packets of speluncee certainly contained a) 
mixture of all three. 
®. MicRoLEPIA UROPHYLLA, Hook.—North India. Ferns British India, tab. 108. 
9. MuICROLEPIA MAJUSCULA, Lowe.—Ceylon. erns Southern India, tab. 254. (proxima). 
10. MucRoLEPIA PLATYPHYLLA, Don.—General. Lerns Southern India, tab. 13. 
GENUS 19. STENOLOMA. Fez. 
Tnvolucre forming a compressed suborbicular or cup- “shaped pouch, terminal on the Sone and open only at Hae top, fronds 
yarious in size, but the ultimate segments always cuneate, growing gradually wider from the base to the apex. 
1. SrenoLoma TENUIFoLIA, Sw.—General. Serns Southern India, tab. 16. (Davallia), 
GENUS 20, CYSTOPTERIS. Bernz. 
1. Cysropreris rraciuis, Bernh.—North India. Ferns British India, tab. 91. 
ob Cystoprrris sEToss, Ledd.—North India and Birma. ferns British India, tab. 312, 262. (Lastrea.) (Davallia 
setosa, Baker; Syn. Fil.) : : 
= 
TRIBE V. LINDSAYEA. 
GENUS 21. LINDSAYA. Dryanp (Linps#A4.) 
1. Linpsaya cuLTRATA, Sw.—General. Ferns Southern India, tab. 23. Ferns British India, tab, 28. (Lobbiana.) 
2. Linpsaya REPENS, 7’hw.—Ceylon, North Indiaand Malay Peninsula. Ferns Southern India, tab. 213. (Odonteloma 
repens. Desv. Syn, Lil, p. 93. Lindsaya pectinata, B1. Syn. £il., p. 106.) 
Baker gives the Nilgiris as a locality, but I have never found this fen in Southern Tndia. 
3, LINDSAYA REPENS, var. minor, Zhw.—Ceylon. Ferns Southern India, tab. 214. 
4, LINDSAYA SCANDENS, Hook.—Malacca. ferns British India, tab. 298. 
