NKPIIRODIUM, § r.ASTREA. 141 



14 inches long ovate acuminate subcoriaceo-memljranaccous 

 palish-green when dry, tripinnate, primary pinnae 4-G inches 

 long petiolate two lovvest pairs semiovate (the lower half 

 the broadest) acuminate the rest oblong acuminate pinnatifid 

 at their apices with oblong entire segments, pinnules ol)ovate 

 or oblong obtuse obliquely cuneate and subdecurrent scarcely 

 ^ an inch long subpiiuiatifid on the superior margin, costules 

 and veinlets subflexuose the latter forked, sori generally one 

 to each lobe or segment near the costule, involucre very con- 

 spicuous exactly cordato-reniform subconvex with a rather 

 deep sinus. (Tab. CCLXVIII.) 



Hab. Clarence Peak, Fernando Po, alt. 4000 feet, Gmtav A/ann.— With much 

 of the habit and shape of segments and ultimate pinnules resembling the smaller 

 and least compound state of ouriV. variahili', this is in reality very distinct. The 

 caudex is a stout, nearly erect rhizome, with copious paleaceous scales ; stipitcs 

 crowded, tufted, all, except the base, together with the rachises, stramineous and 

 quite setose, with firm, small, subulate, spreading, ferruginous scales. The invo- 

 lucres, too, are quite different. 



137. N. (Lastrea) eHocar/w/w, Decaisne; caudex ascending 

 stout clothed with a very dense cushion-like mass 1-.3 inches 

 thick of aureous subulate scales from i-1 inch long not ex- 

 tending to the stipes, stipites a span to a foot long pale- 

 brown glossy quite glabrous and scaleless as are the main 

 rachises, frond firm-membranaceous pale-green i-H foot 

 long subquinquefidly deltoid acuminate very pilose on all the 

 costse and costules on both sides and on the veins beneath 

 with white hairs tripinnate, primary pinnce oblong or ovate 

 acuminate 4 inches to a span long petiolaLe lowest pair espe- 

 cially on petioles or branches 2-.3 inches long semiovate the 

 lowest basal secondary pinnee the longest, pinnules oblong- 

 ovate ^-I inch long obtuse deeply pinnatifid decurrent at the 

 base, the segments oblong-ovate tootiied or subincisu-pinna- 

 titid, veinlets forked, sori most copious, involucres large 

 pale-coloured membranaceous cordato-reniforni convex very 

 villous. — Aspidium, IVall. Cat. p. S24. Metten. Aspid.p.GO. 

 Nephrod., Decaisne, Archiv. Mas. ii. p. 185. Lastrea, Pr. 

 Nephrod. hirsutum, Don, Prodr. Nep. p. 6. Lastrea, Moore. 

 HypoJematium onustum, Kze. in F/or. 183.3. yw. 689. Ana- 

 lect. Pierid. p. 45. t. 28. Aspid. pilosulum. Wall. Cat. n. ^.i"! 

 {not Kze.). A. subdiaphanum, Wall. Cat. n. 343. Hypode- 

 matium Ruppellianum, Kze. in Sc/tk. Fil. Sitppl. t. 21. Cys- 

 topteris odorata, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 93. 



Ilab. India, probably very general in the mountain ranges: North-west Ren- 



