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persistent orbiculari-reiiiform plane brown almost black in 

 the disk. (Tab. CCLXII.) — Aspid. purpurascens, Bl. En. 

 Fil. Jav.p. 1G9. Aspid. densum, //«//. Cat. n. 390. Metten. 

 Aspid. p. G5. Lastrea, Fr. Aspidiuin nitidulum, Wall. Cat. 

 n. 392. Aspid. Weiglianimi, Kze. in LimKEa, xxiv. j). 284, 

 and A. catophoron, Kze. Bat. Zeit. vi. />. 262 [according to 

 Mettenius). Aspid. sparsum, Spr. Nephrod., Don. 



Hah. East Indies, almost universal in mountain districts: Nepal and North- 

 M'est Benf!;al, and ihrougliout the Himalaya-range to Kliasya and Assam, Wallich, 

 Griffith, /looker fil. and Thomson, Simons, Thus. Lohh ; JIahalableshwar, Bates ; 

 Nilghiri, Beddome, n. 120 and 72. Ceylon, abundant, Gardner, n. 263 a, 1148, 

 1369,1253,1097,1370. Mauritius, Jra/ZicA, 1820. Java, Blume (Aspid. scy- 

 todes, Bl. in Herb, nostr.), Be Vrieseand Teijsmann, n. 268, Thos. Lobb,n.2Tl b. 

 — A rather coarse-looking species, with much of the habit of the less coriaceous 

 forms of Aspid. (Polyst.) coriaceum, mucli more easily recognized by the eye than 

 by any specific character, varying much in composition and in the length and 

 breadth of the pinnules. 



123. N. (Lastrea) Jlaccidmn, Hook. ; caudex short erect 

 sending down a dense mass of fibrous roots, stipites tufted 

 stramineous black at the very base slender scarcely scaly a 

 span to a foot long, fronds 1-H foot long broad-lanceolate 

 acuminate membranaceous pubescenti-hirsute with long 

 white hairs on the costaj and costules beneath, bipinnate pin- 

 natifid at the apex, primary pinnre remote opposite or alter- 

 nate 3-4 inches long ^-| inch wide sessile lanceolate acumi- 

 nate, pinnules horizontally patent oblong-lanceolate distant 

 decurrent at the base forming a winged rachis, obtuse or acute 

 loi)ato-pinnatifid, the segments short entire, veinlets once or 

 twice forked, sori in two rows between the costule and the 

 margin, involucres small pale-coloured orbiculari-reniform 

 depressed in the centre, rachis and costse stramineous shi- 

 ning. (Tab. CCLXIII.)- Aspidium, BL En. Fil. Jav. p. 161. 

 " Lastrea remissa," Moore, in Herb, nostr. 



Ilab. .lava, Blume (in Herb. Nostr.), Millett. Moulmein, Parish, n. 159. 

 Khasya, Kunawar, Griffith, Hooker fil. and Thomson. — A distinct enough species, 

 as may be seen by our figure, yet, though apparently common in India, very little 

 noticed in books. Authors often mislead by comparing a new species with an 

 old one with which it has no similarity, as in this case, where Blume alludes to its 

 affinity with N. Filix-mas. 



124. N. (Lastrea) diuisum, Hook.; caudex?, stipes 2-3 

 feet long nearly | an inch or more in diameter brown glossy 

 scaleless, frond ample 3 and probably more feet long trian- 

 gular-ovate firm-membi-anaceous glabrous (or a little pubes- 

 cent on the costse), primary pinna3 very distant long petioled 



