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ASPIDIEiE. 



LASTREA MELANOPUS (Hook.) Caudexl stipes a little scaly below a span or more long, rather slender and as well as 

 the raehis glossy ebeneous-black, fronds 18-14 inehes long, membranaceous bright-green obsoletely subglandular-pubescent especially on 

 the cost* pinnate, pinnce sub-opposite sessile 4-6 inches long, MJ inch wide, oblong shortly acuminated pinnatifid, segments oblong 

 obtuse rarely snbfalcate entire or nearly so, lowest pair of pinnae semiovate snbfalcate the inferior half of the pinn* with much longer 

 segments MJ inch long, lobato-pinnatifid, veinlets forked distant, sori small on the superior branch of the veins ecpu-distant, between 

 the margin and the costule, involucre small membranaceous reniform ciliated.— Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 110. 



The specimen figured is from Moulmein, (Rev. Parish.) 



Hab. Moulmein, Amboyna 1 



PLATE No. XXXVIII. 



