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LASTREA. 
LASTREA PULVINULIFERA. (Bedd.) Caudex ? stipe up to 30 inches long, furnished with a dense cushion-like mass 
of golden scales at the base (as in L. odorata), and clothed throughout (especially in the older specimens) as are the rachis and partial 
rachises with numerous hair-like black scales, which proceed from a broad base, and which are generally more copious at the axils of - 
the pinnæ ; fronds ample, up to 30 inches long (without the stipe) by 18 inches broad near the base deltoid tripinnate coriaceo-herbaceous ; 
E pinnæ gradually decreasing in size from the base to the apex, lower pair opposite, large deltoid with the pinnules of the lower margin 
much the largest, remaining pinne alternate or rarely subopposite or opposite ; pinnules up to 4 inches long in the basal pinne, with — 
their secondary pinnules equal to the primary pinnules on the upper parts of the frond ; segments obtusely rounded, entire or lobed, and = 
occasionally dentate or crenate, glabrous on both sides, but sometimes furnished with a few weak setæ on the costules and veins on the 
upper side ; veinlets inconspicuous, terminating within the margin ; sori terminal on the lower veinlet ; involucre reniform glabrous. 
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Hab. Himalayas,—(Dr. J erdon.) 
١ Allied to L, sparsa, but more compound and well distinguished by its hirsute clothing and dense cushion-like mass at the — 
‘base of the stipes ; the texture is that of L, sparsa. ۱ E | nct 
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