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ASPIDIEiE. 



LASTREA MICROSTEGIA (Hook.) Caudex? stipes a span long, stout tawny-brown laxly scaly racHs and cost* stout 



shorter 4 inches long sterile and wrth broader and more approxun * l^^T adnate bage pyramida u y and obtnsely acuminated 

 gradually acuminated, pinnules f to .nearly an inch long '^^ ^^^^ ^ lo bes or segments small ovate 



Cfn^ 



reniform pale greenish -brown.— HooTc. Sp. Fil iv. 119. 



The figure is taken from Sir W. Hooker's " Species Filicum." 



Hab. Khasya, (temperate regioD.) 



PLATE No. XXXIX. 



