Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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by 6-8 inches, glabrous, elongate, 3-pinnate, pinnae distant, erect- 

 patent, flexuose, lanceolate, two inches broad ; pinnules distant lanceo- 

 late, cut down to the rachis below into subquadrangular toothed 

 segments (tertiary pinnae) ^ inch broad, texture subcoriaceous ; 

 rachis and both sides naked ; veinlets forked ; sori small, low down 

 on the veins near the midrib of the pinnules. Moore in Hook. 

 Sp. Fil. iv. p. 126. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 283. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 226. 

 L. splendens, var. (3, Hook. Sp. Fil. 126. 



Nepal, Sikkim (a little-known plant, perhaps abnormal Filix- 

 mas or splendens). 





43. Lastrea sca- 

 drosa (Kunzc.) Caudex 

 stout, suboblique, densely 

 paleaceous, stipes 1-3 feet 

 long, densely paleaceous 

 towards the base, scabrous 

 above ; fronds membrana- 

 ceous, semitransparent, del- 

 toid-ovate acuminate up 

 to about 2 feet long, bi- 

 pinnate, or subtripinnate 

 above, tripinnate below, 

 pinnae alternate, distant 6- 

 12 inches long, the lowest 

 pair deltoid with some of 

 the inferior basal secondary 

 pinnae enlarged to double 

 the size of the others, which 

 are generally i|-2 inches 

 long and pinnatifid down to a winged rachis (or almost pinnate) ; 

 the pinnules J— | inch long, cut down one-third to half-way to the 

 a into more or less obtuse segments, veinlets prominent, one 

 to each segment, simple or forked, terminating within the margin 

 and clavate at the apex ; costa and veins furnished with weak whitish 



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LASTREA SCAJJROSA. 



