42 
(2) Rhizome creeping, downy or covered 
with fibrillose scales. Pinnules cut down into 
roundly lobed finely crenate segments. Tex- 
ture herbaceous. 
1, L. wmmersa. 
(b) Rhizome creeping ; covered with blunt 
often peltate scales. Pinnules cut down toa 
narrowly winged rachis into very narrow linear 
sharply pointed segments. Texture almost 
leathery. 
2. L. pulchra. 
1. Leucostegta immersa Presl. 
Rhizome creeping, downy or covered with fib- 
rillose scales. Fronds three-pinnate, triangular, 
12-18 inches long, 6—g inches broad ; pinnules 
cut down into broad segments, excised at the 
base below and roundly lobed, with the lobes 
crenulate above. Surfaces naked. Texture thin 
Sori large, close to the margin. [Plate V-a.] 
Distribution: Bombay Presidency—Maha- 
bleshwar ; on trees and banks, Lonavla. 
Madras Presidency on the western moun- 
tains; Coorg; Himalayas, from Mussorie to 
Bhotan, 3,000-6,000 feet; Sikkim; Khasya; 
Malay Peninsula.—lava. 
