142 NEPIIRODIUM, § LASTREA. 



gal, Kamoun, Simla, etc., Wallich, Strachey and Winterbottom, Bates, Jacque- 

 mont ; Sikkini-Himalaya, Hook. fil. and Thomson, Griffith ; Mahalablashwar, 

 Bates; Moulinein, elev. 2000 feet, Parish; Irawaddy, Wallich. Abyssinia, 

 Schimper. Cape de Verdes, ainuidant, Miller, J. D. Hooker, Forbes, Vogel, Milne, 

 and Macgillivray. — One of the best marked of all the genus. 



138. N. (Lastrea) tenericaule, Hook.; caudex ("repent" 

 according to Mettenius) a short erect rhizome, according to 

 one of my specimens, clothed with copious subulate long fer- 

 ruginous scales above, stipites tufted (?) stramineous or pale- 

 brown varying exceedingly in length and thickness from one 

 foot and slender to 2-3 feet long and h a line to 1 inch in dia- 

 meter near the base where it is paleaceous as is the caudex, 

 the rest (and the rachis) smooth and polished or glaucous or 

 more or less subulato- or setaceo-paleaceous so as to be his- 

 pid with soft long spreading bristles, frond generally very 

 ample 1-3-4 feet or more long broad-ovate (?) acuminate 

 firm-membranaceous 3-4-pinnate, costae costules and veins 

 hirsute with long white soft silky spreading hairs, pinnae 

 on long petioles (especially in the more compound fronds) 

 broad-oblong acuminate wide apart, ultimate pinnules ob- 

 long or lanceolate more or less decurrent at the base acumi- 

 nate or obtuse pinnatifid with copious small oblong entire 

 segments, the margin often reflexed, veinlets simple or 

 forked generally bearing one sorus on each small lobe or 

 segment, involucres very small cordato-reniform membra- 

 naceous soon disappearing. (Tab. CCLXIX.) — Polypo- 

 dium tenericaule, JVa//. Cat. n. 335. Hook. Fil. Hongkong, 

 in Kew Gard. Misc. ix. ;;. 353. Lastrea, Moore. P. tri- 

 chodes, Reinw. J. Sm. Hook. Bot. Journ. iii. p. 394. Phe- 

 gopteris, J. Sm. in Seem. Bot. of the Herald, p. 425. Aspid. 

 uliginosum, Kze. in Linnaa, xx. p. 6. Bot. Zeit. vi. p. 263. 

 Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 94. Aspid. p. 72. Hypolepis, 

 Fee, Gen. p. l46 ? [Metten.). Lastrea leucolepis, Pr. Epim. 

 p. 39. Polypod. ornatum, Wall. Cat. p. 327- Hook. Kew 

 Gard. Misc. ix. p. 354 [in note). Phegopteris, Fee, Gen. p. 

 243. Cheilanthes stenophylla, Kze. Bot. Zeit. vi. p. 212 

 {Metten.). Hypolepis, Moore, Lid. xxxix. 



Hab. Apparently common in all parts of the continent of India to Assam and 

 Mishmee and throughout the Malay Islands, all collectors, most abundant in 

 mountain-districts, IVallich, Griffith, Hooker fil. and Thomson, etc. Java, De Vriese 

 and Teijsmnnn, n. 582 (caudex and main rachis very stout and quite erinaceous 

 with stout setaceous squama;), 80, 213, 53, 582, 201, 208. Borneo, Motley, De 

 Vriese, n. 22. Philippine Islands, Cuming, n. 1, 75, 114, 212, 355, 412. Ceylon, 

 Gardner, Tkwaites, \^ho sends specimens with distinct involucres. Society Islands, 



