246 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



base, and obtuse at the apex, ratVer deeply lobed (about half down) ; 

 the segments being falcate, lower pinnae sorr.ewhat distant and a little 

 reduced in size, and sometimes deflexed; main rachis slightly 

 hairy, partial rachis costules and veins furnished with longish weak 

 brown hairs above, and beneath with long white needle- like hairs ; 

 veins pinnate in the ultimate segments in fully developed fronds, 

 forked or even simple in smaller examples ; sori generally terminal 

 or near the apex of a yeinlet ; indusium small reniform. Hook. Syn. 

 Fil p. 274. Bedi. F. S. I. t. 250. 



Mr. Clarke has joined this with L. gracilescens, but quite wrongly 

 in my opinion, its real affinity is with L. tenericaidis, which it strongly 

 resembles, and of which it may be a more simple form. 



South India, Travancore Hills, rare. Ceylon, about Newera 

 Elya and the highest part of central provinces. Himalayas up to 

 6,000 feet. 



(Also in Java.) 



23. Lastrea Brunoniana. (Wall.) Stipes tufted, 4-6 inches 

 long, black, densely clothed with large dark-brown lanceolate scales, 

 fronds 12-18 inches long, 2-4 inches broad, with numerous close 

 subequal oblong-lanceolate blunt pinnse, the lower ones reduced, the 

 largest 1^-2 inches long, f inch broad, cut down nearly to the 

 rachis into sharply toothed rounded lobes i|-2 lines broad, texture 

 herbaceous, rachises ebeneous and more or less clothed with long 

 fibrillose scales, under surfaces naked, sori copious, medial on the 

 veinlets. Asp. Brunonianum, Wall. Cat. 344. Hook. Syn. Fil. 274. 

 Bedd. F. B. I. t. 37. 



Himalayas, 11,000 to 16,000 feet, Kashmir to Bhotan. Very 

 like L. odontoloraa in texture and cutting, knowing so little of the 

 plant as I do, I should not like to suggest it is the same, but I had 

 great difficulty in distinguishing between some specimens of these 

 two in the Kew Herbarium, and Mr. Clarke named one specimen he 

 gave me of this "odontoloma." 



24. Lastrea barbigera. (Hook.) Stipes tufted, 6-12 inches 

 long, densely clothed with large bright-trown scales and soft silky 



