Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
surfaces naked ; veins pinnate ; veinlets 4-5 on a side ; sori low 
down on the veinlets^ indusium reniform. BL En. PI. Jav. Fil 148. 
Bedd. F. S. I. f. g6. Asp. atratum, Wall. Cat. 380. 
Himalayas, 5,000-9,000 feet, from Nepal to Bhotan, Khasya 
4,000-6,000 feet ; South India, Nilgiris, &c. ; Ceylon ; Birma. 
(Also in the Malay Islands and Polynesia.) 
7. Lastrea Walkers. {^Hook under Folypodiiini.) Stipes 
up to foot long, clothed with linear scales ; fronds up to 3 feet long, 
oblong-lanceolate, pinnate ; pinnae linear-lanceolate, short-stalked, 
acuminate, slightly crenate 
along the margins, lower ones 
about 6 inches long, by about 
I inch broad, lower base cut 
away, upper base square ; tex- 
ture subcoriaceous, glabrous ; 
veins in pinnate groups; sori 
2-3 serial, between the midrib 
and the margin, dorsal on the 
veinlets ; indusium reniform, 
very fugacious. Polypodium 
Walkerae^ Hook. Syn. Fil. isf 
ed. p. 305. Lastrea, 2nd 
ed. 493. Bedd. F S. L t. 
234. 
Ceyloa. 
VaR. /J MACROCARPA. 
Fronds very large, the pinnae 
slighdy lobed, often fur- 
nished with a large auricle at the superior base. Bedd. F. S. I. 
235- 
Ceylon. 
Var. 7 PiNNATiFiDA. Pinnae pinnatifid nearly to the rachis, 
leaving only a broad wing along the rachis, lower ones sometimes 
pinnate. Bedd. I. c. t. 235. 
LASTREA HIRTITES. {Bl.) 
