Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



2V 



surfaces naked ; veins pinnate ; veinlets 4-5 on a side ; sori low 

 down on the veinlets, indusium reniform. Bl. En. PL Jav. Fil 148. 

 Bedd. F. S. I. t. 96. Asp. atratum, Wall. Cat. 380. 



Himalayas, 5,000-9,000 feet, from Nepal to Bhotan, Khasya 

 4,000-6,000 feet ; South India, Nilgiris, &c. • Ceylon ; Birma. 

 (Also in the Malay Islands and Polynesia.) 



7. Lastrea Walkers. {Hook under Polypodium) Stipes 

 up to 1 f foot long, clothed with linear scales ; fronds up to 3 feet long, 

 oblong-lanceolate, pinnate ; pinnse linear-lanceolate, short-stalked, 

 acuminate, slightly crenate 

 along the margins, lower ones 

 about 6 inches long, by about 

 1 inch broad, lower base cut 

 away, upper base square ; tex- 

 ture subcoriaceous, glabrous ; 

 veins in pinnate groups; sori 

 2-3 serial, between the midrib 

 and the margin, dorsal on the 

 veinlets ; indusium reniform, 

 very fugacious. Polypodium 

 Walkerse, Hook. Syn. Fil. xst 

 cd. p. 305. Lastrea, 2nd 

 ed. 493. Bedd. F S. I. t. 

 234- 



Ceylon. 



V.VK. /} MACROCARI'A. 



l-'ronds very large, the pinnae 

 slightly lobed, often fur- 

 nished with a large auricle at the superior base 

 t. 235. 



Ceylon. 



Var. 7 PINNATIFIDA. 1'innoe pinnatifid nearly to the rachis, 

 leaving only a broa r l wing along the rachis, lower ones sometimes 

 pinnate. Bedd. I. c. t. 235. 



LASTREA HIRTIPES. (AV.) 



Bedd. F. S. 1. 



