60 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



10,000 feet {Lace, No. 348). Mr. Blanford also mentions that the 

 fronds of remota are narrower and more oblong than those of 

 elongata ; this is generally the case, but Trotter's Hazara examples 

 are quite deltoid. 



29. Lastrea sparsa. Asp. pellucidum, Franchet PL David 

 ii. 157, Thibet is var. nitidula. (Clarke.) 



Var. y obtusissima. Dulkajhar, 500 feet alt. Sikkim, Terai 

 (No. 36,790, Clarke), Kohima 4,750 feet alt. (No. 41,639, Clarke). 

 I have not seen Clarke's var. of sparsa from Naga Hills, men- 

 tioned at page 9$, Jour. Linn. Soc. xxv.. but from the description 

 have no doubt that it belongs here. 



29A. Lastrea obovata. (Baker.) Rhizome erect ; stipe a 

 foot long, scaly at the base and sparingly so above ; scales lan- 

 ceolate blackish ; fronds oblong-deltoid, decompound, thin, gla- 

 brous 2-4 feet or rather more long, lower pinnae the largest 

 produced on the lower side, as in sparsa, central ones oblong- 

 lanceolate, about 1 foot long, secondary pinnae 2-3 inches long, 

 pinnate or pinnatifid, final segments obovate or oblong obtuse 

 ■J-jt inches broad ; veins pinnate in the final segments, veinlets 

 very ascending ; sori terminal or medial on the veins, indusium 

 small fugaceous. Baker, Jour, of Bot. 1890, 265. 



Digboi, Makam Forest, Lukhimpur, Assam. (G. Mann.) 



(Also in Tonquin.) 



The Assam specimens have the sori generally, but not always 

 terminal ; in the Tonquin specimens they are almost all medial 

 on the veins, but occasionally terminal. It is nearly allied to 

 sparsa, but a much larger fern. 



30. Lastrea pulvinulifera. Col. Henderson has collected 

 this with the fronds 3 feet long and 2 feet broad at the base. 



32A. Lastrea padangensis. (n. sp.) Rhizome erect; stipes 

 8-9 inches long, furnished with long hair-like scales, as are the 



