62 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
deltoid, with rachises winged to base, cuneate-truncate on lower 
side, final lobes lanceolate-falcate under i line broad, with sorus on 
upper side at base ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked ; involucre 
cup-shaped, broader than deep, | line broad, oblique, close to final 
sinuses. Hook. Syii. Fil. 469. Bedd. F. B. I. Suppt. t. 352. 
Moulmein. 
GENUS XVIIL— MICROLEPIA. {Presl) 
{Micj'os, small ; lepis^ a scale, the small indusium.) 
Fronds pinnate or variously compound ; texture various ; veins 
simple or pinnately forked ; venules free ; sori intra- or sub-marginal ; 
involucre membranaceous, half 
cup-shaped, attached at the sides 
as well as the base ; rhizome 
creeping ; stipe continuous with 
the caudex. 
I. MicrolepiaHookeriana. 
( Wall.) Stipe a foot and 
more long, pubescent, at length 
glabrous ; rachis hirsute-pubes- 
cent ; fronds lanceolate pinnate ; 
pinnse subpetiolate lanceolate from 
a broad hastate base, gradually 
acuminated submembranaceous, 
duplicate-crenated, sparingly hairy 
on the costa and veins beneath ; 
veins parallel, dichotomous; sori 
MICROLEPIA HooKERiANA {Wali.) approximate, forming a continued 
line at the base of the crenatures 
of the margin; involucres half cup-shaped; stipes and rachis 
pubescent-hirsute. Hook. Syji. Fil. p. 97. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 101. 
Sylhet, Upper Assam, Khasya and Mikir Hills. 
(Also in Hong Kong.) 
