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ASPIDIE^E. 



LASTREA FaLCONERI (Hook.)Caudex? stipes a foot long very coarse and stout quite squarrose for nearly its whole 

 length with large broad silky ferruginous soft scales mixed with smaller subulate ones, these latter only still smaller also clothe the mam 

 and°secondary rachises, fronds 1 J foot long, oblong scarcely acuminate firm rigid coriaceous slightly villous bi-pmnate, pun. 4-6 mches 

 Ion. an inch wide, erecto-patent oblong-lanceolate, pinnules sessile linear-oblong J-f of an inch long, about half way down pmnatmd 

 with short round entire lobes, the margins reflexed, sori rather large copious one to each lobe, involucre brown very membranaceous 

 cordato-reniform very convex so as to be almost hemispherical.— HooTc. Sp. Fil. iv. 123. 



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



Hab. Kashmir. 



PLATE No. XLI. 



