Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 257 



tertiary rachis a little scaly, ultimate segments oblong blunt" ; texture 

 subcoriaceous ; veins pinnate or forked in the ultimate segments ; 

 sori below the middle of the veins and near the costules (never apical 

 on a veinlet as in pulvinulifera) ; involucre reniform, glabrous, per- 

 sistent. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 498. Lastrea pulvinulifera, Hook. I. c. 

 500, in part only. Nephrodium pulvinulifera, Clarke, F. N. 1. p. 

 525, in part only. 



Himalayas, near Darjeeling, 7,500 feet elevation. 



(Also in Natal and Bourbon.) 



32. Lastrea spectabilis. {Wall, tinder A spidium.) Stipes 

 1— ii foot long and with the rachises purple-coloured and furnished 

 with patent linear subulate reddish-brown scales ; fronds 2-4 feet 

 long, more than i foot broad, subdeltoid, tripinnate with the tertiary 

 pinnules deeply pinnatifid, and their segments again crenated or 

 serrated, lowest pinnae largest, deltoid, unequal-sided, the two lower 

 basal secondary pinnae being much produced ; texture moderately 

 firm, the costa of the pinnules and veins of the segments sparingly 

 furnished with long weak setae most copious on the upper side, 

 otherwise glabrous, sori medial on the upper basal veinlet of the 

 segment; involucre reniform. Wall. Cat. 372. Clarke, F. N. I. 

 p. 526. Lastrea Hendersoni, Bedd. Fern Sup. t. 377. 



Khasya on Shillor.g Hill 5,000-6,500 feet elevation ; Nepal. 



33. Lastrea deparioides. (Moore under Diclisodon.) Stipes 

 about 1 foot, long, firm, slightly scaly below ; fronds up to 2 feet 

 long, oblong-lanceolate, bipinnate with the pinnules deeply pin- 

 natifid, pinnae 4-6 inches long, 2 inches broad, lanceolate, the 

 secondary rachis with a very narrow inconspicuous wing, pin- 

 nules stalked, deltoid, unequal sided, with broad blunt subquad- 

 rangular lower segments and prominent teeth, texture rather 

 firm, rachis : 'and both surfaces naked; sori terminal in the teeth 

 which the convex involucres quite conceal. Diclisodon, Moore, 

 Index Fil. 316. Lastrea deparioides, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 104. Hook. 

 Syn. Fil. 277. 



South India, on the Anamallay Hills, 2,000 feet elevation; 

 Cevlon. southern provinces. 



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