50 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
pinnatifid witli the segments entire or crenated, the remaining pinnae 
pinnatifid with the segments crenated; sori at the apex of the 
superior veinlets of each segment, indusium as in the genus, veins 
terminating within the margin. Hook. Sy?t. Fil p. 90. Bedd. F. B. I. 
t, 96. 
This very deHcate species was discovered near Moulmein, on 
limestone rocks, by the Rev. C. S. Parish. 
Moulmein. 
2. Leucostegia membranulosa. ( Wall) Caudex hispid, with 
very long, slender, subulate, rigid, membranaceous scales; fronds 
9-15 inches long, thin and membranaceous ovate-lanceolate and as 
well as the slender stipe and rachis pubescent-hirsute, bipinnatifid ; 
pinnae lanceolate, their rachis winged ; pinnules lanceolate pinnatifid, 
the segments ovate-lanceolate subfalcate, very acute entire or rarely 
toothed; involucres small, ovate-subrotund acute, very thin and 
membranaceous fixed by the broad base, the rest free. Hook. Syn. 
Fil. /. 91. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 98. 
Very like multidentata, but differs in the scales of the rhizome, 
and in the fronds being much less compound ; in this they are 
pinnate, with the pinnae deeply pinnatifid, in multidentata bipinnate, 
with the pinnae deeply pinnatifid. 
Nepal, Kumaon, Moharguri Pass, 6,500 feet. 
(Also in Yunan.) 
3. Leucostegia multidentata. ( Wall, under Aspidium.) 
Rhizome stout-creeping ; scales ovate-acute ; fronds with the stipe up 
to 2 feet long and i foot broad, deltoid, bipinnate, with the pinnules 
deeply pinnatifid, down to a winged rachis, texture herbaceous ; 
rachises pubescent above, often furnished with a few distant large 
ovate scales, rachises and segments beneatli, generally glandularly 
pubescent; sori 2-12 to a segment, placed at the base of its teeth, 
on the upper side of the central vein. Wall. Cat. 346. Microlepia 
pteropus. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 313. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 91. 
Himalayas, Nepal and Bhotan, 5,000-8,000 feet ; Khasya, 
4,000-5,000 feet, common. 
