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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



Himalayas, Kumaon to Bhotan, 4,000-10,000 feet, Khasya, 

 3,000-6,000 feet ; South India on the Western mountains ; Ceylon; 

 Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in Natal, Samoa, and Australia.) 



* * Indusium always rehiform. 

 \ Pinnce. subentire or only slightly lobed {except in forms v and B 



of Walker -ce.) 



5 

 1 foot 



. Lastre a cuspid ata. {Mett. under Aspidium.) Stipes about 

 long, reddish as is the rachis, scaly towards the base; fronds 1-3 



feet long, pinnae numerous, linear- 

 lanceolate from a broad base, 4- 

 6 inches long, \-\ inch broad, 

 cuspidate at the base, very shal- 

 lowly lobed (not \ to the rachis), 

 the lobes sharply serrated; texture 

 scarcely coriaceous ; rachis and 

 both surfaces naked ; veins pin- 

 nate with 3-4 veinlets on each 

 side ; sori towards the base of 

 the veinlets ; indusium reniform, 

 fugacious. Mett. Farngatt. Plug. 

 and Asp. 92. Polypodium elon- 

 gitum, Wall. Cat. 309. Bedd. 

 F. B. 1. t. 118. Nephrodium 

 cuspidatum, Hook. Syn. Fit. p. 

 260. 



Khasya Hills, 3,000-4,000 



N9II9. 



LASTREA CUSPIDATA. 



[Mett.) 



feet elevation, near Shillong. 



6. Lastrea hirtipes. (Bl. under Aspidium.) Caudex erect ; 

 stipes tufted up to about 1 foot long, densely clothed, as is the 

 rachis, with long blackish hair-like scales ; fronds up to 3 feet long, 

 pinnse numerous, linear-lanceolate from a broad base, 4-8 inches long, 

 by nearly 1 inch broad, with broad shallow lobes reaching \ to \ 

 towards the rachis, lower ones not reduce 1; texture herbaceous; 



