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LASTREA. 
LASTREA SETOSA. (Bedd.) Caudex erect, stipes 1 foot long, sparsely covered with small flaccid subulate light-brown - 
scales, fronds tufted 3-34 feet long, tripinnate, pinnæ 8-10 inches long, lowest pair nearly as long as the central ones, gradually decreasing - 
in size towards the apex, pinnules pinnatifid to nearly the rachis but always more or less connected by a decurrent wing, very membrana- 
ceous and flaccid, and furnished on both sides sparsely (as is the rachis and costa) with long weak pellucid jointed sete, segments of the 
= pinnules generally as broad at the apex as at the base more or less pinnatifid with the lobes obtusely rounded or variously toothed, veins 
forked and simple reaching the margin, sori one to each segment medial on the lower vein involucre reniform glabrous. 
- Hab, Moulmein Mountains 6,000 feet elevation (Parish, No. 175), a very delicate and beautiful species nearly allied to 
Lastrea scabrosa (Kze.) and to L, Blumei and recedens (Hook.) 
PLATE No, CCLXII. 
