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turn pinnatifid. Ultimate lobes 
rounded. 
g. L. crenata, 
1. Lastrea calcarata Hook. 
Caudex erect. Stipes densely tufted. Fronds 
up to two feet long, lanceolate, pinnate with 
pinnatifid apex ; pinnz 1-4 inches long, $-inch 
broad, tapering from a broad sessile base 
towards the apex, cut down about two-thirds or 
more towards the midrib into linear oblong 
segments ; the lowest segment of the upper side 
occasionally larger than the rest. Lower pinne 
often reduced to mere auricles. Rachis “and 
surfaces more or less hairy. Veinlets simple. 
Sori on the back of the veinlets. Indusium 
kidney-shaped, hairy or naked. [Fig. 41-h and 
Plate XIII.] 
Var. ciliata Bedd.—The fern occurring in 
the Presidency is Beddome’s variety, ciliata, 
which is characterized by him as follows :— 
“Texture herbaceous, lowest pinnules deflexed, no 
auricles on the stem ; stipes rounded, pinne about 
four inches long, caudate at the apex, nearly 
one inch broad; indusium hairy or glabrous’. 
Distribution: Bombay Presidency—North 
Kanara,. Anmode, Cooesi, growing on moist 
