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crenated lobes, texture herbaceous, rachis slender, villous, and both 

 sides slightly so, veinlets 6-8 on a side, simple (very rarely forked) ; 

 sori small medial on the veins, indusium reniform, glabrous or pilose. 

 Baker, Hook. Syn. Fil. 267, not Wallich, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 307. 

 L. Bergiana, Bedd. F. B. I. Sitppl. t. 370. Aspid. appendiculatum, 

 Wall. Cat. 349, type sheet only. Aspid. eberneum, Wall. Cat. 

 3S9, type sheet only. 



Himalayas near Simla, Sikkim, Yakla 8,000 feet elevation. 

 Mr. Clarke thinks this may be only a variety of ochthodes, but it has 

 no glands at the base of the pinnae, the 

 texture also is different, and it is more 

 hairy. 



14. Lastrea Beddomei. (Bake}-). 

 Rhizome slender, wide creeping ; stipes 

 6-9 inches long, slender, glossy ; fronds 

 pinnate up to about 1 foot long, lanceo- 

 late elliptic, central pinnae the largest, 

 about ij inches long, •§ inch broad, 

 cut down almost to the rachis into close 

 rather acute entire segments under 1 line 

 broad, lower pinnae distant and dwin- 

 dling down very gradually, texture 

 rather firm, veins beneath furnished 

 sparingly with longish white needle-like 

 hairs, veinlets 4-5 on each side, simple 



sori near the margin. Baker. Hook. 



° . N?I22. 



Syn. Fil. p. 267. L. gracilescens, Bedd. LAST rea beddomei. 



F. S. I. I. 1 10. . (Baker.) 



South India on the Travancore and Tinnevelly Mountains in 



swampy ground. Ceylon, common in swampy places about Newera 



Elya. A pretty delicate species much cultivated at Ootacamund. 



15. Lastrea Elwesii. (Baker.) Stipe not seen, main rachis 



minutely pubescent ; fronds oblong-lanceolate, narrowed from the 



midrib at both ends, 16 inches long, by 4I inches broad, glabrous, 



pinnate; pinna: patent, subobtuse, cut down only one-half towards 



