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LASTREA. 
LASTREA BARBIGERA. (Hook. Caudex stout erect short and together with the young nascent fronds clothed with a 
dense mass of very large satiny scales mixed with soft golden and silky hairs, stipites a span to a foot long, stout black brown only at 
the base (the rest and the rachises) clothed with large satiny scales ovate and acuminate mixed with narrower ones, those upwards gra- لب‎ 
dually pass into rich golden soft hair-like and flexuose scales, fronds 14-2 feet long, 10 inches to a foot wide, broad ovate-oblong scarcely 
acuminate pinnate or almost universally bipinnate, primary pinnæ subpetiolate oblong obtuse 4-5 inches long, 1% inch broad, pinmules 
sessile oblong deeply pinnatifid, lobules strongly dentate, the teeth divaricating with a very sharply-acuminated and setaceous point, 
veinlets forked, sori mostly on the upper half of the frond as many as there are lobules to the pinnule, Hook. Sp. Fil.iv. 113—Nearly : 
allied to L. Brunoniana, | 
The specimen figured is from Sikkim, 12000 ft.—(Dr. Hooker). 
Hab. Kumaon, Simla, Sikkim 12-13000 ft. 
PLATE No, COXXYII. 
