ASPIDIEiE. 

 LASTREA. (See " Ferns of Southern India," p. 33.) 



InSTREA MNICULASEA (Hook.) Caudex stout creeping densely clothed with twany satmy ova te-acumma te paleaceous 

 scales stip^fa spauto aloot long, stont below and there paleaceous like the caudex, fronds pergamentaceous glossy translucent when 

 eh 1 2 e and more Ion., oblong-ovate acuminate supradecompoundly pinnate, primary pinn* (inferior ones) from 4 mches to aimos 

 !tb"«S ovate filly acuminate, secondary ones 1-3 inches long also petioled, these are broken up mto a success^ of 

 Llrandie 1^^ pinnules aM all finely cut into Mnear acute obscurely costate segments simple or once or tw.ce forked or 

 Lt: a laS "hort tooth which generally bears the solitary rather small sorus, son sub-globose , M broad as the -g-nt or tooth, 

 involucres small dark-brown convex reniform of sub-coriaceous texture, rachises with a few scattered flexuose W *,-H«L Sp. FU. 



i Yf 36.— Z. aristata y. dissecta Moore 



The specimen figured is from Sikkim, (Dr. Thomson.) 

 Hab. Chola, Sikkim, (elevation 8—10,000 feet.) 



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