296 : 
LASTREA. 
1۸4 OBTUSILOBA (Baker) ; stipes 1-2 feet long, firm, erect densely clothed with large, ovate, concolorous scales ; 
frond 3-4 feet long ; 14-2 feet broad; lower pinnz often 1 foot long 6 inch broad ; pinnules lanceolate, most of the segments of the jawa, 
ones distinct, ovate-oblong, cut down to the rachis into oblong-rhomboidal entire lobes, the largest l inch deep, + inch broad; texture — 3 
herbaceous, turning blackish when dried ; rachises slightly scaly, the upper ones, and especially the under surface, more or less glandular ; E 
lower veinlets of the entire lobes forked; sori medial. Hook. Sp. Syn. Ful. p. 284. i 
The specimen figured is from Ceylon (C. P. 3142), it is nearly allied to L. ferruginea (Bedd.) and to L. Blumei Hook. (nich is 3 : 
the “ intermedia’ of Blume). 
Hab. Ceylon (at Newera Ellia and Maturatto). | | | 
PLATE No, CCXCVI 
