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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
secondary pinnae lanceolate-linear, very finely caudate, cut down 
nearly to the rachis into ovate acuminate, unequal sided toothed 
lobes j sori submarginal, one to each of the lower sinuses of the 
lobes. Hook. Syn. Fil. ^.99, not of Wallich or Bedd. Clarke^ F. N. 
L t 50. 
Bhotan (allied to M. platyphylla). 
5. MiCROLEPiA PLATYPHYLLA. [DoJi.) Rhizome Creeping, stout, 
scaly; stipes 2-3 feet long, firm erect; frond 3-4 feet long, tri- 
pinnatifid ; lower pinnae 12-15 inches long, 6-9 inches broad, 
lanceolate with distant linear-lanceolate pinnules, which are cut 
nearly to the wavy rachis below, into broad, bluntish toothed, oblong- 
deltoid lobes ; texture coriaceous when adult, glabrous and shining 
on both surfaces, but when young more or less membranaceous and 
hairy; sori 2-12 to a segment, placed one in each tooth, a short 
distance from the edge, about a line across. Don. Fl. Prod. Nep. 
10. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 99. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 1^. 
Madras Presidency, throughout the Western mountains, up to 
nearly 6,000 feet; Ceylon; Himalayas, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhotan 
3,000-5,500 feet elevation ; Khasya. 
6. MiCROLEPiA KuRzn. {Clarke.) Fronds large tripinnatifid ; 
pinnae as in platyphylla, with linear-lanceolate pinnules, which are cut 
down to its rachis (which is not wavy, or only slightly so towards the 
apex) below into triangular subobtuse or lanceolate-caudate lobes, 
which are bluntly serrate ; texture not so coriaceous as in platy- 
phylla, uniformly pubescent beneath, even when adult; venation 
much less prominent than in platyphylla ; involucres finely ciliated 
round the margin. Clarke F. N. I. p. 446. 
Birma. 
This is very like platyphylla, and may turn out to be only a 
variety of it. I have only seen one specimen. 
7. MiCROLEPiA MAjuscuLA. {Lowe.) Rhizoiiie creeping, tomen- 
tose; stipe 6-12 inches long, erect naked ; fronds up to 3 feet long 
lanceolate-deltoid, tripinnatifid ; lower pinnae 9-12 inches long, 3-4 
inches broad, lanceolate ; pinnules lanceolate acuminate, cut down 
