252 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



Himalayas, Kashmir to Kumaon 6,000-8,000 feet elevation. 

 (Also in Europe, Caucasus, and Cabul). 



28. Lastrea spinulosa. (Desv.) Stipes tufted, about 1 foot 

 long, sparingly clothed with ovate concolorous scales; fronds 12-18 

 inches long, 6-8 inches broad, oblong-lanceolate ; lower pinnae sub- 

 deltoid, 3-4 inches long, 1-I—2 inches broad, the lowest pair about 

 equal to the next ; pinnules ovate-lanceolate, the largest about 1 inch 

 long, i inch broad, cut down to the rachis below into close oblong 

 lobes with copious aristate teeth ; texture herbaceous ; rachis stra- 

 mineous, scarcely scaly ; under surface not glandular ; colour pale- 

 green ; involucre not gland-ciliated. Hook. Brit. F t. 20. 



Var. y remota. {A. Br.) Scales lanceolate, concolorous, 

 extending to the rachis; fronds oblong-lanceolate, about 2 feet long, 

 6 inches broad ; pinnae lanceolate, close ; pinnules ovate-oblong, 

 only the lowest free, the largest about 1 inch long, ■§■ inch broad, 

 cut half-way down to the rachis or more, spinulose teeth few ; under 

 side and involucre not glandular. Hook. Brit. F. t. 22. Bedd. 

 F B. I. t. 336. Asp. eberneum, Wall. Cat. 389, in part. 



Kashmir to Nepal, 6,000-9,000 feet elevation. 



(Also in Northern and Alpine Europe, Asia and America.) 



29. Lastrea sparsa. {Don.) Rhizome short, suberect, 

 densely covered with lanceolate-linear golden or reddish scales ; 

 stipes long, 1 foot or more, with scattered scales ; main rachis 

 generally glabrous or subglabrous ; fronds ovate, 2-3 pinnate, lowest 

 pinnae the largest, deltoid, with their lower basal pinnules generally 

 compound, pinnules deeply pinnatifid above, less so below, and 

 more or less cut away at the base, ultimate segments oblong or some- 

 what trapezoidal, coarsely toothed and often quite sharply serrated ; 

 texture more or less coriaceous ; veins pinnate in the segments 

 terminating within the margin ; sori either terminal on a veinlet or 

 well below its apex ; indusium reniform. Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. 6. 

 Bedd. F. S. I. t. 103. Hook. Syn. Fil. 276. Aspidium marginatum, 

 Wall. Cat. 291, 2nd sheet. 



