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lower pinnee somewhat reduced and deflexed, pinnules inciso-crenate. Syn. Fil. 2nd. edit, p. 498. (Sikkim) Yakla 12,000 feet eleva- 
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98, DLAsTREA APICIFLORA, Hook.—North India. Ferns British India, tab. 40. 
29. Lastrea Firix-mas, Lich., var. B patentissima.— General. Ferns Southern India, tab. 111. 
30, Lastrea Finix-mAs, var, ¥Y Clarkei, Baker.—North India. Ferns British India, tab. 370. . : 
Fronds 1-2 feet long by 3-5 inches broad narrowed gradually from the middle to both ends the lowest ‘ones reduced to mere auricles, 
_ pinnze sessile cut down to the rachis into close truncate entire lobes, surfaces naked, costa scaly. L. Clarkei, Baker ; Syn. Fil., 2nd 
— edit., p. 497. Sikkim, Yakla, 10,000 feet. Merns British India, tab. 371. 7 
31. Lasrrea Firix-MAs, var. 6 nidus, Clarke.—North India. Stipes forming dense circular tufts like birds’ nests, the two 
tion. Ferns British India, tab. 372. | 
good varieties, 
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This and the last are stunted forms growing at a very high elevation and are perhaps too near patentissima to be considered even 
32, Lastrea Fiuix-mas, var. e elongata.—General. Ferns Southern India, tab. 112-1178. Ferns Southern India, tab. 114 
(odontoloma). | 
. 33. Lastrea Fitrx-mas, var. £ Cochleata, Wall.—General. Ferns Southern India, tab. 115. Forms at a low elevation, are 
very distinct and well marked, higher up the mountains there are often forms quite intermediate between cochleata and elongata. 
34, LastRea Fiurx-mas, var. y odontoloma, A/oore.—North India. Ferns British India, tab. 373. I have referred fig. 114 of 
the Ferns of South India to elongata as it has quite the texture of ordinary filix-mas, the Himalayan plant here figured is true 
odontoloma and is of quite a membranous texture and has the involucre much fimbriated, and is worthy, I think, to rank a separate 
species. : , 3 | 
3 35. LASTREA FLACCIDA, Hook.—General. Ferns Southern India, tab. 250. 
36. LastreA Brunoniana, Hook.e—North India. Ferns British Indva, tab, 37. 
37, LASTREA BARBIGERA.—North India. Ferns British India, tab. 227; Ferns British India, tab. 41, (Falconeri) (I refer 
‘Falconeri, Syn, Fil., here). : | 
38, LasTREA sPINULOSA, Desv.—North India, Herns British India, tat. 336. 
39. LaAsTREA spaRSA, Don.—General. Ferns Southern India, tab. 103, 
40, LastTREA SPARsA, var. B nitidula, Wall.—North India, (L. purpurescens, Don.) Ferns Southern India, tab, 374. 
41, LASTREA SPARSA, var. y obtusissima, J/ett.—Ceylon. A much less cut large variety with broader shorter blunt oblong 
q or obovate final lobes } inch broad. Kuhn Linnea, 36; Ferns British India, tab. 375. 
42, LAsTREA sPARSA, var. 6 deltvidea, Bedd.—Ceylon. Ferns Southern India, tab. 248. 
43. LASTREA SPARSA, var. «minor, Thw.—This is a curious little variety. Mr. Wall sends specimens in fructification with 
fronds only 23 inches long by 3 inch broad, simply pinnate, the pinnules slightly pinnatifid with spinulose teeth, another form has the 
fronds 10 inches long by 2 inches broad, the pinnules pinnate at the base ouly, where the secondary pinnules are much dwarfed re- 
sembling obovate auricles ;—Syn. F711. 2nd edit., p. 498, C. P. 8383. Not figured, Ceylon. 
(Lastrea sparsa, var. membranacea. Arnt, M.S.8., Syn. Fil. 2nd edit., p. 498, is Athyrium macrocarpum). 
44, Lastrea GRACILIs, Moore.—North India. Ferns British India, tab. 198. (L. sparsa, var. gracilis, Syn. £7.) 
45. LastrEA PULVINULIFERA, Bedd.—North India. Ferns British India, tab. 333. che 
46. LasTREA PULVINULIFERA, var. 8 Geylanica, Bedd.—This differs from the Himalayan form in the upper and lower basal 
_ -pinnules of all the pinne being much larger than the others, and in wanting the hair-like scales of that plant, all the rachides being 
furnished with black much adpressed flattish scales, the tertiary pinnules are pinnatifid hence it is subquadri-pinnate instead of only 
_ tripinnate or subtripinnate as in my Himalayan specimens, but this latter is only a question, it being a little more compound and not 
_ always a distinction to be considered specific. It is probably however a distinct species though closely allied to pulvinulifera.— 
_ Lastrea pulvinulifera in part Syn, Fil. 2nd edit., p. 500, Not figured, Ceylon, 
47. Lastrra Henpersoni, Bedd.—Stipes 1-1} feet and with the racbides purple colored and furnished with patent linear 
subulate purplish scales, frond 14-2 feet long by 15-16 inches broad, subdeltoid, tripinnate with the tertiary pinnules deeply pinnatifid 
and their segments again crenated, the crenatures falcate ; lowest pinnae largest deltoid unequal sided the two lower basal secondary 
pinne being much produced, texture moderately firm, the costa of the pinnules and veins of the segments sparingly furnished with 
Jong weak setze most copious on the upper side, otherwise glabrous, sori medial on the lower veinlet of the segments, involucre reni- 
form. Shillong Hill, Khasya, 6,000 feet elevation, gathered by Captain Henderson. This comes nearest to pulvinulifera, Ferns 
_ British India, tab, 377. 
