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MiCROLEPiA (continued.) 
2. Microlepia strigosa. (Moore.) Fronds tall, lanceolate, bi-pinnate, stipes elongated, rachis and veins pubescenti-hispid, 
primary pinnae petiolate, lanceolate acuminate, secondary (or pinnules) mostly petiolulate, sub-dimidiato-ovate, obtuse pinnatifid, chiefly on 
the upper edge, lower lobes obovate deep, the rest short, all of them angulato-dentate, veins pinnated, furnished with a few long scattered 
hairs both above and beneath (the remaining surface of the frond beneath being sometimes furnished with numerous small hairs, or some- 
times glabrous as is the upper surface), involucres hairy, small half cup-shaped, //oo^■.— Dicksonia strigosa, /S'if.— Davallia Khasiyana, 
Hook. S2h Fil. i, 173. — Microlepia cristata, J, Sm. En. Fil. Philipp. 
Ceylon. (C. P. 1386.) 
Chokampatty Hills (Tinnevelly district) abundant, at an elevation of 5,000 feet, (only lately detected in the Madras Presidency.) 
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3. Microlepia hirta. (Kaulf.) Tall, fronds erect, rigid ovato-lanceolate, much and gradually acuminate, rather glossy, tri-pinnate, 
])innules approximate, rhombeo-lanceolate, sub-dimidiate, acute decurrent, upper ones coadunate, all of them inciso-pinnatifid, segments 
acute, sori small on the inner margin in the sinus of a lobe, involucres half cup-shaped, veins prominent and hairy, especially beneatli, 
rachis hispido-tomentose. Hook. — Davallia hirta, Kaulf En. Fil., p. 223. — Dicksonia Kaulfussiana, Gaud, in Freyc. Voij. Eot., p. 36S.— 
Davallia villosa, Don. ( Sprenrjel. ) 
Ceylon. (C. P. 3272.) 
IMalabar, ilanantody, and the slopes of the Brumagherries. I have long had this fern in my herbarium, but until I received a 
specimen of it from Mr. Thwaites as an authentic spec, of M. hirta, I had always considered it only as a variety of M. piolypodioide^ , 
(Don.,) plate XV of this work. I have given a figure of it in case it should be distinct, but I still suspect it is only a variety oipolypo- 
dioides. I have lately collected on the Courtallum Hills (Tinnevelly), what I take to be a third variety : it is very nearly allied to the 
Ceylon and ]\Ialabar M. hirta, but is more delicate — the secondary pinnules are narrower, the involucres are quite glabrous, and the fronds 
nearly so. 
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'NoTE.—Davallia (Microlepia imequalis, (Kunze), recorded as a Ceylon fern, is probably the same as M. hirta. 
PEPxANEMEyE. 
{d.) Veins free. 
* * Involucres sessile. 
DiACALPE. Elume. Enum. PI. Jav. 241. 
(Aspidii sp., Wallich ; — Physematii sp., Kunze ; — Cystopteridis sp., Presl. ; — Cyatheaj sp., Mettenius.) 
Sori involucrate globose, the receptacles punctiform, medial on the anterior lower venules. Involucre firm, membranaceous, or 
sub-coriaceous, sessile attached to a small point globose, entire, at length bursting and splitting irregularly from the top. Veins simplej 
forked, or (in the secondary pinnules) pinnate, venules simple free. 
Fronds decompound, herbaceous. Rhizrime short. The chief peculiarity in this genus is the hard globose, entirely closed 
involucre, which at length bursts open irregularly, and is affixed by a small point of contact. (Moore). 
1. Diacalpe aspidioides. (Bl.) 2-4 feet high, stipes long, clothed below with very large, broad opaque, brown, membranaceou.- 
scales ; fronds tri-pinnate, primary pinnae often nearly sessile ; main and partial rachis frequently beset with copious short setose scales, 
especially beneath, sometimes with long crinite deciduous scales which also appear on the veins above, pinnules sub-membranaceous, 
oblong-cuneate, pinnatifido-lobate, more or less decurrent, so that the rachis and ultimate pinnas are generally winged, veins dark colored, 
not reaching to the margin. 
Ceylon. (C. P. 3282.) 
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