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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



34. Lastrea Thwaitesii. {Baker.) Quite like the last in 

 general outline and habit, except that the pinnules are less cut and 

 the segments bluntly lobed instead of having prominent teeth, and the 

 sori just within the margin ; it is probably only a variety of depari- 

 oides or the normal form of it, as that species is very abnormal in the 

 genus. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 277. L. concinna (Thwaites), Bedd. 

 F. S. I. t. 246. 



Ceylon, southern pro- 

 vinces, 2,000 feet elevation. 



35. Lastrea crenata. 

 {Forsk under Polypodium.) 

 Stipes up 1^ foot long, straw 

 coloured, glossy, densely 

 clothed at the base with a tuft 

 of golden lanceolate-linear 

 scales, fronds up to x\ foot 

 long, 3-4-pinnate deltoid, 

 lowest pinnae much the largest 

 deltoid, 6-9 inches long, 3-4 

 inches broad, pinnules lan- 

 ceolate, often imbricated, with 

 ovate or oblong pinnatifid 

 segments, with blunt rounded 

 lobes ; texture herbaceous, 

 colour pale green ; rachises pilose or subglabrous, surfaces pilose ; 

 sori copious, medial on the veinlets ; indusium large, pale coloured, 

 villous. Forsk. FL sFgypt.-Arab. 185. Lastrea eriocarpa ; (Decne.) 

 Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 141. Bedd. F S. I. t. 95. Nephrodium odoratum 

 {Baker), Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 280. Aspidium pilosulum, Wall. Cat. 

 337; and subdiaphanum, 343. 



Himalayas from Gurwhal to Bhotan, 2,000-7,000 feet elevation, 

 Khasya, 2,000-4,500 feet, Chota Nagpore, 2,000-3,000 feet; South 

 India, on the Anamallays,_PeringoondaHill, 5,000 feet, and elsewhere 

 on the western ghats, but rare ; Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. 



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LASTREA DEPARIOIDES. 



{Moore 



