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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
2. MiCROLEPiA piNNATA. {Cav.) Rhizomc creeping, fur- 
nished with fibrillose scales; stipe strong, erect, 6-12 inches long, 
glossy; fronds 9-15 inches long, 4-8 inches broad, lanceolate- 
pinnate, glabrous ; pinnse slightly toothed, 6 inches long, \ inch broad, 
coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, gradually acuminate, obUquely acuminate 
at the base ; sori one to each tooth, small, submarginal ; veins sunk, 
inconspicuous, generally forked ; involucres small, half-cup-shaped. 
Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 98. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 14. 
Anamallay Mountains ; Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in Java and Polynesian Islands.) 
3. MicROLEPiA MARGiNALis. {T/iunb. tmdcr Folypodium.) Fronds 
broadly ovate-lanceolate, firm, membranaceous ; pinnae elongate, 
lanceolate, subfalcate, acuminate, pinnatifid-lobate, the acuminated 
apices serrated, pubescent- villous beneath, most so on the costa and 
prominent veins, unequally cuneate at the base, and subpetiolate ; 
lobes acute crenate-dentate ; veins pinnated ; sori solitary in the axils 
of the smaller and upper lobes or serratures, and distant from the 
margin, marginal on the small teeth of the larger lobes ; involucres 
broad half-cup-shaped, densely villous ; rachis and stipe downy, the 
latter at length glabrous ; rhizome creeping, villous ; stipe 1-2 feet 
long, erect, strong; fronds 18-24 inches long, 9-15 inches broad, 
once pinnate. Polyp, marginale, Thunb. Fl. Japan, p. 337. Micro- 
lepia scabra, Don. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 102. 
Nepal and Kumaon, Khasya, Mikir Hiils. 
(Also in Japan and Formosa.) 
Var. /3 CALVESCENs. {Ilook.) Pinnae narrower and more deeply 
pinnatifid, nearly glabrous beneath, except the strigose midrib. 
Davallia calvescens. Book. Sp. Fil. I. p. 172, /. 48 B. D. urophylla 
(Wallich), Bedd. F. B. I. i. 103. 
Kumaon. 
4. MiCROLEPiA UROPHYLLA. {Hook.) Rhizome creeping; stipe 
strong, erect, 2-3 feet long ; fronds bipinnate, tripinnatifid, coriaceous, 
shining above and beneath, but pubescent on the rachiscs btlow; 
