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86. N. (Lastrea) appendiculatam, Hook. ; " frond membra- 

 naceous setose at the costai the rest pubescenti-pih)se2i feet 

 hjiig pinnate, pinntc subapproximate patent sessile with a 

 small gland at the base beneath, from the middle gradually 

 diminishing towards each extremity, the middle ones .3^ 

 inches long 7 lines wide elongato-oblong gradually attenuated 

 caudato-acuminate deeply pinnatifid the apex entire, seg- 

 ments approximate with narrow sinuses linear-oblong obtuse 

 the basal ones equal to those next to them or especially ujjon 

 the lowest piimee with the lowest enlarged ones, tertiary veins 

 10-14 on each side the lowest ones reaching the margin 

 above the sinus, involucre ?, capsules with a simple hooked 

 seta." Metten. — Aspidium, IV^alL Cat. n. 249. Metten. Aspid. 

 p. 81 (who quotes " Lastrea, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 75 ?"). 



Ilab. Nepal, Vi'allich. — Moore gives three Ferns of Wallich, under the name 

 of Aspid. appcndiculalum ; one he refers to Lastrea appendlculata, he does not 

 say of whom, another tr) Polypodium eriihescens, and the third to Nephrod.molle. 

 As far as I know, Mettcniusis the oidy author who has described Walhch's ])lant 

 from Nepal ; but my specimen of Wallich thus localized does not agree in size 

 with Mettenius's description, for the pinnrc are 10-11 inches long and IJ- inch 

 broad; but the Fern affords so little of a tangible character, that any remarks I 

 make will not clear up the dificulty about the species. I have other specimens, 

 places may be the same as those so named, but on no good authority. Mettenius 

 which it next before iV. ochthodes. 



87- N. (Lastrea) ochthodes, Hook. ; " rhizome short, stipites 

 crowded moderately long flexuose fusco-paleaceous towards 

 the base, frond subcoriaceous firm, on both sides at the cos- 

 tules on the veins beneath and at the margin sparingly ca- 

 nescently hispidulous olivaceous above paler beneath, lan- 

 ceolate acuminate at the base gradually and long attenu- 

 ated pinnate, pinnpe deeply pinnatifid sessile with a callous 

 gland at the base beneath patent or divergenti-jmtent from 

 a broad subequal base linear-attenuated comjiound the 

 lower ones gradually abbreviated and dwarfed the lowest 

 abortive, segments falcato-oblong or linear rather acute mar- 

 gin reflexed subrepand the lowest ones on each side longer 

 distinctly but slenderly pinnatedly veined lowest pair con- 

 fluent at the pellucid sinus bearing sori at the apex, sori mi- 

 nute extended to the margin and continued to the apex soon 

 contiguous the series united at the base, involucres minute 

 reniform brown hairy, rachis obtusely angular furrowed 

 above hispididous." Kze. — Var. a, frond much attenuated at 

 the base by the dwarfing of the pinnae. Aspidium ochthodes, 

 Kze. in Linnaa, xxiv. p. 282. Metten. Aspid. p. 82. — Var. /3, 



