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LASTREA. 
 LASTREA IMMERSA. (Hook. Caudex creeping stipes elongated 3-4 feet long, fronds glabrous or finely pubescent with 
scattered glands beneath from a broad base ovato-oblong or oblong acuminate pinnate, pinnæ 8-10 inches long sessile with a swelling 
round the base of the pinne (articulated ?) linear attenuated at each extremity long acuminate at the apex deeply pinnatifid, segments 
linear-oblong entire obtuse, sori immersed arranged between the costule and the margin of the segments, involucres reniform glabrous 
entire persistent. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 112.—Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 91. t. 18. f. 1-3 ;—Aspidium. Bl. En. Fil. p. 156 ;一 A, im- 
pressum (ex errore) Kee. in Linnea xxiii. p. 227 ; Lastrea verrucosa. J. Sm, in Hook. Bot. Journ. iii. p. 411 ;—Pr, Epim. p. 36. 
- The specimen figured is from Assam— (Griffith). 
Hab. Assam, Java, Luzon, Johanna Island, East coast of Tropical Africa. : 
PLATE No, CCLII. 
