260 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



rufous-pubescent, and copiously furnished with rufous scales, fronds 

 very large ovate in outline, tripinnate, primary pinnae 10-15 inches 

 long, tertiary pinnae i-if inch long, pinnatifid nearly to the rachis, the 

 segments oblong entire or rarely rather deeply incised, sparingly 

 hairy above, pubescent on the costa on both sides ; veinlets forked 

 or simple ; sori small medial on the veinlets ; involucre reniform, 

 glabrous. Lastrea Blumei, Hook. Sp. Fil. iv., 135, in part at least. 

 Bedd. F. S. I. t. 249. L. intermedia {Baker), Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 

 283. L. rhodolepis, Clarke, F. N. I. 526. 



North India, Sikkim, Assam and Kha^ya 5,000-7,000 feet ; 

 Ceylon, common in the central provinces, 2,000-3,000 feet elevation. 



(Also in Japan ; Malay Islands ; Polynesia.) 



Mr. Clarke states that it is not the intermedia of Blume. I do 

 not know whether he is correct in this, but in any case a new name 

 is unnecessary, as it has been published and figured as Blumei, a name 

 otherwise unoccupied. 



39. Lastrea recedens. (y. Smith.) Rhizome creeping, stipes 

 erect, villous, clothed at the base with linear scales ; fronds very large 

 deltoid, 3-pinnate above, 4-pinnate below, with the quaternary 

 pinnules deeply pinnatifid, lower pinnae up to nearly 2 feet long, (in 

 large specimens) secondary pinnae on the lower side 9-10 inches 

 long, quaternary pinnae f inch long, the ultimate segments entire 

 or slightly crenated, texture herbaceous, rachises villous, under 

 surface softly hairy on the veins, upper surface nearly glabrous 

 except on the costules, veins forked, sori terminal on, or a little 

 below, the apex of a veinlet. Phegopteris recedens (J. Smith), 

 Hook. Jour, of Bot. iii. 394. Lastrea recedens, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 98, 

 two-thirds of a small frond. Nephrodium, Hook. Syn. Fil. 281. 



South India, on the lower Pulney Mountains, and Travancore 

 and Tinnevelly Hills, 3,000-5,000 feet elevation ; Ceylon, central 

 provinces, 2,500-5,000 feet elevation. 



(Also in the Philippines.) 



40. Lastrea dissecta. (Forst.) Rhizome erect, stipes 1 foot 

 or more long, a little scaly at the base, fronds deltoid to ovate, up to 



