LASTREA. 
LASTREA PLATYPUS, (Hook.) Caudex ? stipes in the upper part terete testaceous glabrous slender, frond 14 foot long, 
thin coriaceous glossy sub-deltoideo-ovate acuminate bipinnate tripinnate below, primary pinnæ 6-10 inches long petiolate, superior ones 
ovato-oblong acuminate subfalcate ; based ones the longest and bipinnate, pinnæ and ultimate pinnules all obliquely ovate acuminate at 
the base, superior base auricled, ibi rest sub-pinnatifid with pungent and serrated lobes, veinlets twice or thrice forked, sori in 2 series 
half-way between the costule and the margin, involucre large convex cordato-reniform membranaceous finely fimbriated on a short 
stipes.—-Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 149 ;—Aspidium ;—Kze. Bot, Zeit. vi. p. 262 ;— Mett. Asp. p. 69. 
'The specimen figured i is from Moulmein—(Lobb.) 
Hab. Moulmein Mountains, 5000 ft., Java. | : 
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