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oblongo lanceolatis acuminatis tenui-membranaceis pallide viridibus pinnatis, 
pinnis patentibus inferioribus remotis subunciam loDgis rhoinbeo-subtriangu- 
laribns longo petiolatis profunda pinnatifidis subpinnatisve oblique obovatis 
inequaliter lobatis, sterilibus serrulatis, venis subflabellatira dichotomis apice 
soriferis, invol ris orbiculari-cuneatis membranaoeis apice erosa solum modo 
libera iobulis fondium marginis confomxibus, rhaobibus gracilibus 
subfiexuosis, pinnis supremis sublanceolatis.” 
Mr. Baker’s description is 
53 D. (Micro.) Wilfordii 9 Baker ; rhizome creeping ; st. 4-6 in. 1., slender, 
naked, flexuose ; Jrond 6-9 in. L, 2-3 in. br., lanceolate, tripinnatifid ; lower 
pinnae deltoid, stalked, about 1 in. I, \ in. br., cut down to the rhachis below 
with broadly ovate-rhomboidal sharply toothed pinnules ; texture herbaceous ; 
rhackis^nA both surfaces naked ; sort 2-6 to a pinnule, apical in the teeth.— Zb 
rhomboidea^Kook. 2nd Cent., t. 48, not Wallich. Microlcpia Wilfordii, Moore. 
Hab.— J apan ; gathered by both Messrs. Wilford and Oldham.” 
Kashmir ; “ Bcrniar Nala — 5,000' ; wet place,” J. C. McDonell, June, 1897. 
DiSTRiB.~-J.sm : C'iina— M. Tsien Mts ., Faber 1885 ; Manchuria, between Mukden 
and Tung-che-Shien, 11. E. M. Jame j?, 1886 ; Peking Mts., W. Hancock 1880 : *• In 
shady glens by streams, along with Cysiopt-aris frapdis^; Dr. Bret schneider, “ Flora 
Pbkiuensis, 1880 (?). Korea — Am-nok River, Pbyingan Province, 1884. Japan — 
Hakodadi, C Wit o-rd , No. 103T, 1869 ; Yokohama, R. Oldham , 7/61, No. 99, “on rich 
moist banks on the hillsides Maxim Iter’ Sec., 1862, F. V. Dickens 11. 
Yokohama and Bukenje, Jas . Bissett , 1887 (/), Yokohama, Maries { from Veitch, 1880), 
Ilancocky 144, 1885 ; “ Japan Fmirie , Nos. §12 and 4228; Japan— Mt. Akagi 
1888, from Science College, Imperial University, Japan (Jap. Wo renshida). 
This plant seems to be more common in Japan and N.-E. China than was 
known when Sir W. Hooker described it. I cannot find that Moore did more 
than name it. But there is no record from the westward of the Peking 
Mountains except Mr. McDoneH’s discovery of it in Kashmir in 1897. The 
species seems to be terrestrial, judging from Oldham’s and Hancock’s remarks 
above quoted, as well as from Me Do cell’s specimens, one of which reached 
me with fine micaceous sand adhering to the thin creeping rhizome. The 
cutting and texture are like those of D. ( Leuco .) mrnersa , Wall., but the frond 
is narrow, and the sori are much smaller and apical. 
In reply to an inquiry as to habitat, and for further material, Mr. 
McDonell wrote, in November. 1899, that this is a terrestrial species: he found 
it growing in a shady glen, close to running water. There was very little of it, 
and he has not been to the place since. 
7. D. piatyphylla, Dot. ; Syn, Fil. 99 ; 0. B. 446. Microlepia 
platyphyllay Bedd. H. B. 66. 
N.-W. P. : T. Garh .— Near Mussoorie 4,010", Mackinnons, 1879. 
