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rocks and by the banks of streams, Castle Rock 

 in water-course. 



Southern India, very common in all the 

 western forests ; Ceylon ; Khasya ; Himalayas ; 

 Burma. 



2. Lastrea thelyptens Presl. 



Rhizome creeping. Stipes distant. Fronds 

 1-2 feet long, 4-6 inches broad, pinnate ; pinnae 

 cut down almost to the rachis into linear 

 Spreading, entire oblong lobes, those of the 

 barren frond the broadest, lower pinnae equal- 

 ling the others. Surfaces and rachis naked. 

 Texture herbaceous. Upper veinlets simple, 

 lower ones forked. 



Cultivated. 



Distribution: South India, on the Nilgiris, 

 swamps near Ootacamund ; North India, Kash- 

 mir, Bandipoor, City Lake, 5,600 feet elevation, 

 Kunawar, 6,000 feet. Europe ; North Asia ; 

 North America ; Cape Colony ; New Zealand. 



3. Lastrea odontoloma Moore 



Stipes scaly. Fronds up to 10 inches long, 

 6-8 inches broad, two-pinnate, with the second- 

 ary pinnae elliptic-oblong cut down into 



