228 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
6, Pleocnemia Leuzeana. {Hook) Caudex subarborescent, 
densely scaly at the crown, stipes 2-3 feet long, stout, striated, shortly 
hirsute without scales ; fronds up to 6 feet long, subdeltoid, bi-tri- 
pinnate ; pinnae i-ii foot long, 6-8 inches broad, simple, or the 
lowest with 2-3 large (12-14 inches long) secondary pinnae from 
the lower side, which are again pinnate with the pinnules stalked, 
2-4 inches long, and deeply pinnatifid, ultimate segments oblong- 
rounded, entire or denticulate, usually with a tooth in the sinus at 
their base ; lower veins anastomosing in costal arches near the costa 
of the pinnules and along the midrib of the segments, other veins 
free and excurrent, or all the veins of 
the segment are free ; sori copious, usually 
in single rows on each side of the midrib, 
mixed with yellow glandular hairs ; in- 
dusium reniform, early fugacious. Hook. 
Syn. Fil 295. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 134. 
North and East Bengal, base of the 
hills up to 2,oco feet elevation, Sikkim, 
Assam, Cachar, Khasya, Chittagong ; 
Birma, and Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in Malay Islands, China, Poly- 
{Hook.) nesia, and North Australia.) 
GENUS LIIL— LASTREA. {Fresl) 
(After Chev. de Lastre, a French nobleman.) 
Sori subglobose, dorsal or terminal on the veins ; indusium reni- 
form, attached by the sinus, or in the first four species sometimes 
orbicular ; veins all free fronds pinnate or compoundly 2-4 
pinnate. 
Indiiskwi rejtiform or orbicular, texture more or less coriaceous. 
I. Lastrea amabilis. {BL vnder Aspidium.) Rhizome 
