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rocks and by the banks of streams, Castle Rock 
in water-course. . 
Southern India, very common in all the 
western forests; Ceylon; Khasya; Himalayas ; 
Burma. 
2. Lastrea thelypteris Presl. 
Rhizome creeping. Stipes distant. Fronds 
1-2 feet long, 4-6 inches broad, pinnate ; pinnz 
cut down almost to the rachis into linear 
spreading, entire oblong lobes, those of the 
barren frond the broadest, lower pinne equal- 
ling the others. Surfaces and rachis naked. 
Texture herbaceous. Upper veinlets simple, 
lower ones forked. 
Cultivated. 
Distribution: South India, on the Nilgiris, 
swamps near Ootacamund ; North India, Kash- 
mir, Bandipoor, City Lake, 5,600 feet elevation, 
Kunawar, 6,000 feet.—Europe; North Asia ; 
North America ; Cape Colony ; New Zealand. 
3. Lastrea odontoloma Moore 
Stipes scaly. Fronds up to ro inches long, 
6-8 inches broad, two-pinnate, with the second- 
ary pinne elliptic-oblong cut down into 
