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acuminate, pinnules about an inch long, rather distant, obliquely rhombeo-ovate, acuminate, laciniato-pinnatifid, unequally cuneate at the 
base and there sub-auricled above, the segments or teeth each bearing a solitary sorus at the very extremity terminating a veinlet, involucre 
generally larger than the tooth which bears it, convex cordiform with a deep sinus. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 139 — Hooker, Fil. Exot. t. 3. — 
Diclisodon deparioides, Moore. Index. Fil., p. xcv and 316. 
Anamallay Hills— Rare. 
PLATE No. CIV. 
11. Lastrea falciloha. (Hooker ;) Caudex short, thick, tufted, copiously rooting, stipites tufted a span to a foot long, free from 
scales ; fronds 1 to l| foot long, more or less slightly hairy on both sides, firm, rigid, coriaceo-membranaceous, ovato-lanceolate, finely acumi- 
nate, pinnate, main and partial rachises hairy, pinn« 2-4 inches long, numerous rather distant, sessile linear lanceolate, deeply nearly down tu 
the costa pinnatifid, the apex long tail-like entire or serrated, segments oblong, linear, falcate ; the superior basal segments of each of tiie 
pinnse generally much longer than the others, involucres reniform very hairy — Aspidium falcilobum, Benth. Hong Kong. Flora, p. Abb. — 
Nephrodiiim (Lastrea.) calcaratura, Hook. Sp. Fil. iv, 93. — Aspidium ciliatum. Wall. Cat. n. 351. — Aspidium Reinwardtianum, Kze. Bot, 
Zeit. vi, ^. 261 1 — Lastrea viscosa, J. Smith in Hooker. Journ of Bot. in, jy. 412. 
Nilgiris — common in ravines about half way down the Sisparah ghat — Anamallays, beds of rivers 2,000 to 4,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CV. 
12. Lastrea ochthodes. (Kunze ;) Rhizome short, stipites crowded, moderately long flexuose, fusco-paleaceous towards the base, 
rachis and costa hispidulous above, and glabrous below, or hispidulous on both sides, frond sub-coriaceous, firm, glabrous, the margin spar- 
ingly canescently hispidulous, olivaceous above, paler beneath, lanceolate acuminate, at the base gradually and long attenuated, pinnate, 
pinnse deeply pinnatifid, sessile with a callous gland at the base beneath, patent or divergenti-patent from a broad sub-equal base linear- 
attenuated, the lower ones gradually abbreviated and dwarfed, the lowest abortive segments falcato-oblong, or linear rather acute, margin 
more or less- reflexed in fructification, the lowest segments on each side longer, distinctly but slenderly pinnatedly veined, sori either in a 
continuous line near the costule, one at the base of each vein, or near the centre of the veins. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv, 109. — Aspidium glanduli- 
ferum. Wall. 
Var : a. Aspidium ochthodes, Kunze in Linncm. xxiv, p. 282 — rachis costse and costules canescently hispidulous on both 
sides, sometimes nearly glabrous below, except a glandular pubescence on the veins ; pinnse gradually attenuated, sori at or above the 
centre of the veins, involucre often hairy when young, margin of frond often much reflexed in fructification. 
A very common fern. 
PLATE No. CVI. 
13. Var. /3. Aspidium tylodes, Kunze in Linna^a, xxiv, ]>■ 281 — rachis costffi and costules glabrous below, lower pinnae suddenly 
abortive, reduced to tuberculated glands— sori at the base of the veins close to the costule. 
Nilgiris— rather rare. 
PLATE No. CVII. 
14. Lastrea sjiectahilis, (J. Smith ;) Caudex erect, \ an inch in diameter and together with the base of the stipes, clothed with 
long brown ovate acuminate scales, stipites 1 foot and more long and with the rachis and primary costa elongated, stramineous glabrous, 
fronds lf-2-3 feet long, 1-1^ foot broad, membranaceous, firm, broad-oblong or ovate acuminated, pinnate, pinnse patent 1-2 inches broad, 
from a truncate or sub-cuneate base, oblong acuminated, deeply pinnatifid three-quarters or four-fifths of the way to the costse, segments 
oblong or broad-oblong, rather obtuse, sub-falcate rather sharply serrated, the sinuses rounded at the base and there furnished with a short 
ligulate but very distinct tooth or gland, veinlets conspicuous, flexuose forked, sori small on a superior branch, rather near the margin than 
the costule, involucres small reniform. — Kze. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv, 115. — Aspidium spectabile, Blume, En. Fil., p. 158 — Lastrea, J. Smith in. 
Hook. Journ. Bot. iii, p. 412. 
Carcoor ghat. (Wynad) — Anamallays— rare — Ravines in the North Arcot hills near Kirkumbaddy. 
PLATE No. CVIIL 
15. Lastrea amahilis. (Moore ;) Caudex, decidedly creeping, thick as a swan's quill, paleaceous with ferruginous scales, stipes 
solitary, a span to a foot long, slender, sub-fiexuose, paleaceous below, fronds 6-12 inches long, sub-deltoideo-ovate, acuminate, bi-pinnate, sub- 
