NEPIIRODIUM, § LASTREA. 115 



Hab. Java, Blmne, in Ucrb. nostr. Luzon, Cuminf/, n. 200, and Malacca, n 

 390. Malay Peninsula, Sir Wm. Norris. Penang, I)r. Lorraine, n. 155, 137 

 (lower pinna; nuicli j)etiolatefl, and all of them much elongated and tapering 

 from near the middle). Lahuan, Motley. — Of this Fern my only stfMJle speci- 

 men is from Lahuan, and that is larger in all its parts than the fertile, and has 

 some veiidets which are quite nephrodioid. As a species, its nearest affinity 

 among the Indian species is, perhaps, with N. speciabile. Mr. J. Smith compares it 

 to Aspid. falciculatum of Raddi ; hut to the known species of the new world, it 

 comes, perhaps, nearest to N. triste. 



97. N. (Lastrea) spedabilc. Hook. ; " caudex erect h an 

 inch in diameter and together with the base of the stipes 

 clothed with long brown ovate acuminated scales, stipites 1 

 foot and more long and with the rachis and primary costcB 

 elongated stramineous glabrous, fronds 1 .j-2-3 feet long 

 1-H foot broad membranaceous firm broad-oblong or ovate 

 acuminated pinnate, pinnai patent 1-2 inches broad from a 

 truncate or subcuneate base oblong acuminated deeply pinna- 

 tifid three-quarters or four-fifths of the way to the costae, 

 segments oblong or broad-oblong rather obtuse subfalcate 

 rather sharply serrated the sinuses rounded at the base and 

 there furnished with a short ligulate but very distinct tooth 

 or gland, veinlets conspicuous flexuose forked, sori small on 

 a superior branch rather nearer the margin than the costule, 

 involucres small rotundato-reniform." Kze. — Aspidium, Bl. 

 En. Fil. /J. 158. Kze. in Bot. Zeit. ii. p.2Q\. Metten. Aspid. 

 p. 112. Lastrea, J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii.p. 412. 



Hab. Java, Blume, in Herb, nostr. Luzon, Cuming, n. 1314. Moulmein, 

 Parish, n. 153. Malay Peninsula, Sir Wm. Norris. Khasya and Assam, GriJ"- 

 jith, Simons. Sikkim, Hooker fil. and Thomson, n. 152. Nilghiri, Beddonie, n. 

 129.— The specimens from the Malay Peninsula of Sir Wm. Norris are of a firmer 

 and more coriaceous texture, and in that respect more resemble N. crassifolium ; 

 but all have the essential character of the tooth, or gland, as Kunze calls it, in 

 the sinus of the segments. 



98. N. (Lastrea) hirtipes, Hook. ; caudex short thick erect 

 and as well as the stout tufted stipites and rachis densely 

 crinite with large long subulate intensely black flexuose 

 scales (more or less deciduous), fronds 2-3 feet long subco- 

 riaceous ovato-lanceolate pinnate confluently pinnatifid at 

 the apex, pinnae 3-6-8 inches long more or less remote hori- 

 zontally patent from a truncated or subcordate and nearly 

 sessile inauriculated base oblong long-acuminated variously 

 lobed or pinnatifid or crenated or even serrated at the mar- 

 gin, lobes obtuse or acute, veins pinnated, sori dorsal upon 

 the veinlets remote from the margin, involucres small reni- 

 form subcoriaceous. (Tab. CCXLIX.) — Aspidium, Bl. En. 



