Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 55 



with the pinnae pinnatifid nearly to the rachis, rachis stramineous 

 and nearly glabrous ; pinnse about 7 inches long, cut down nearly 

 to the rachis ; segments narrow-oblong, f inch long by 1^ lines 

 broad with irregular shallow lobes, chiefly about the centre ; 

 texture herbaceous, under surface densely covered with black 

 glandular dots, partial rachis and midrib slightly hairy ; above, 

 the partial rachis and midrib rather densely strigose ; veins about 

 10 pair, chiefly forked ; sori medial, indusium rather persistent. 

 {Baker, Jour. Bot. 1880, 212.) 



Perak, open jungle at 3,500-4,000 feet alt. {King's collectors, 

 No. 3,520.) The pinnse are much longer than in the Sumatran 

 specimen described by Mr. Baker. 



(Also in Sumatra on Mount Singalan.) 



22. Lastrea flaccida. Perak. Maxwell's Hill, 3,000 feet 

 alt. {Day.) 



23. Lastrea Brunoniana. The copious scales on the stipe 

 are early deciduous. Mr. Baker considers this and barbigera as 

 varieties of one species. 



25. Lastrea odontoloxia. This is certainly only a variety 

 of Filix-mas, and should be placed there as Lastrea Filix-mas var. 

 serrato-dcntata, the name of odontoloma having been given by 

 Moore to Clarke's normalis, which was also first figured by me 

 under that name in the .Ferns of Southern India, though after- 

 wards changed by an error. 



26. Lastrea Filix-mas. The European type does not occur 

 in India. 



Var. odontoloma. {Moore) Bcdd. Ferns Southern India, 

 tab. 1 r. Rhizome erect ; stipe and main rachis more or less scaly, 

 densely so when young, but scales soon deciduous ; fronds bipin- 

 nate, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, or deltoid-lanceolate, nearly or 

 quite glabrous ; pinnae 3-5 inches long by i-i-J- inches broad, 



