Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 241 



reduced in size and often more distant, the partial rachis channelled 

 and glabrous on the upper side, slightly pubescent or glabrous 

 beneath, and there furnished with numerous broad-ovate or lunate 

 very transparent scales, segments oblong to ovate entire much 

 recurved at the margins ; veins more or less undulate ; veinlets 

 simple excurrent at the margin ; sori one on the centre of each vein- 

 let ; involucre reniform, fimbriate at the margin. Bedd. F. B. I. 

 t. 254. 



Pulney Mountains, in swamps about the south base of Peermall 

 Malley, 4,000 feet elevation. It was also formerly found about the 

 lake at Kodiekarnal on the same mountains, but has disappeared 

 fiom that locality. In my Supplement I have reduced it to 

 thdypteris, but now believe it to be distinct. In its reduced lower 

 pinnae it approaches Beddomet, but it is much more rigid in texture, 

 and its scaly secondary rachis is quite unlike that fern. I hope it 

 may be further collected. There is a specimen in the British 

 Museum. 



B. Veins forked. 



iS. Lastrea thelypteris. (Desv.) Rhizome slender, wide- 

 creeping, stipes about 1 foot long, slender stramineous ; fronds 

 1-2 feet long, 4-6 inches broad, lanceolate, truncate at the base ; 

 pinnae spreading, | inch broad, cut down very nearly to the rachis into 

 entire: spreading linear oblong lobes, those of the barren frond the 

 broadest, lower pinnae equalling the others, veins forked -(upper ones 

 simple) texture herbaceous, rachis and both sides naked, sori small, 

 not confluent, in rows near the recurved edge ; indusium small incon- 

 spicuous. Desv. in Man. Sac. Linn. 6. 257. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 44, 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. 271. 



South India, on the Nilgiris, swamps near Ootacamund ; 

 North India, Kashmir, Bandipoor, City Lake, 5,600 feet elevation, 

 Kunawur, 6,000 feet. 



(Also in Europe, North Asix, North America, Cape Colony and 

 New Zealand.) 



19. LASTREA pRlSEA. (Baker.) Stipes firm, erect, grey, villous 

 upwards; fronds 1J-2 feet long, 8-9 inches broad, oblong-lanceolate :■ 



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