Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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side, mostly forked ; sori small, submarginal ; involucre ciliated. 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 271. Bedd. F. B. 1. t. 335. 



South India, near Cochin, only once collected. 



20. Lastrea fuscipes. {Wall.) Stipes tufted, slender 6-12 

 inches long, dark purplish-brown, scaly below, fronds 12-24 inches 

 long, 6-12 inches broad, oblong-lanceolate, pinnate; pinnae 3-6 

 inches long, 1 inch broad, the lowest pair rather shorter than the 

 others, and deflexed, and with some of its lower segments often 

 elongated ; segments cut down to a broadly-winged rachis, linear- 

 oblong, blunt, entire or slightly crenate ; texture herbaceous, 

 rachis polished like the stipe ; veinlets 6-8 on each side, simple 



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LASTREA SYRMATICA. 



or forked, generally excurrent when sterile, but terminating well 

 within the margin when fertile ; sori generally apical on a veinlet, 

 sometimes well below the apex; indusium reniform fugacious. 

 Wall. Cat. 361. Lastrea melanopus, Nook. Sp. Fil. iv. no. 

 Bedd. F. B. I. t. 38. L. sagenioides, Hook. Syn. Fil. 271. Poly- 

 podium obscurum, H/ok. Sp. Fil. iv. 237. Syn. Fil. 308. 

 Bedd. F B. I. t. 230. 



Birma and the Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in the Philippine Islands.) 



The type sheet of Aspidiutn fuscipes in WalliclCs Herbarium, No. 

 361, is this plant, but the other sheets are Pleocncmia /u:/n'>rauifo/ia, 



zi. Lastrea syrmatica. {Willi, under Aspiiium). Stipes 



