54 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



14. Lastrea Beddomei. 



(Also in Thibet, China, and the Philippines.) 



15. Lastrea Elwesii. Copious specimens were gathered by 

 Mr. Levinge's collectors at a high level in Sikkim ; stipe 1 foot 

 or more to first auricle, bright chestnut-coloured, shining ; frond 

 narrowed from the middle to both ends, the lower pinnee gradually 

 smaller and running down into mere auricles, 



16. Lastrea ochthodes. Omit the Ceylon locality, Thwaites's 

 fern being Nephrodium externum. 



17. Lastrea Fairbankii should be Thelypteris var. 

 SQUAMIgerum (Sc/i.), distinguished from the type by the 

 presence of broad ovate or lunate transparent scales on the under 

 side of the partial rachis ; it is also much more rigid than 

 the type, the veins generally, though not always simple. Sch. 

 a dumb. 23, tab. 11. Mettenius Farngatt, 112. Fee Me" moire, 

 viii. 104. Aspidium sguamulosum, Hook. Fl. N. Zeal. xi. 39. 

 (Also at the Cape of Good Hope and in New Zealand.) 



2 1 a. Lastrea Dayi. (Bedd.) Stipes 1-2 feet long, stra- 

 mineous, glabrous, or with a few hair-like scales towards the base; 

 fronds 1^-2 feet long ; pinnae 5-6 inches long, -f-i inch broad, lower 

 ones scarcely at all reduced, cut down nearly to the rachis into 

 linear oblong lobes 1^ lines broad, texture papyraceo-herbaceous 

 glabrous on both sides except the rachis above, which is finely 

 puberulous ; veins 6-8 on each side, simple, not reaching the 

 margin ; sori at the apex of the veins not immersed ; involucre 

 reniform, persistent. Bedd. Jour. Bot. vol. xxv. 1887,/. 328. 

 Perak, Maxwell's Hill, 3,000 feet alt. [Day) 

 Habit o some of the forms of Phegopteris distans. Also 

 closely allied to Lastrea singalanensis. 



2 ib. Lastrea singalanensis. (Baker.) Caudex ? stipes 

 about 1 foot long ; fronds lanceolate about 2 feet long, pinnate 



