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LASTREA. 
LASTREA CONIIFOLIA. (Wall) At page 36 and Plate CI. of the Ferns of Southern India, I followed Sir W. Hooker 
in considering this species only a more compound variety of L. aristata. (Sw.) Mr. Thwaites lately drew my attention to the fact that the 
two ferns are quite distinct, this having an erect caudex and aristata a long creeping one ; they are otherwise very similar, but coniifolia 
is much the larger and is more compound, individuals of each species differ much in the manner in which they are cut. I have given in 
this plate a pinna of a more than usually cut variety of coniifolia (from the Sispara ghaut, Nilgiris) and the erect caudex of a juvenile 
specimen. I have also represented the creeping caudex of aristata. Both ferns are common in all our western forests, 
PLATE No. CCLXI. 
