Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 237 
South India, very common in all the Western forests ; and in 
Ceylon (exactly corresponding with Wallich's two type sheets). 
Specimens sent from both these localities were partly referred 
by Hooker to his calcarata and partly to falciloba, but he doubted 
whether the two species were really distinct. Also in Khasya, the 
Himalayas ; Birma. 
Asp. calcaratum, var./3. Thiv. En. 391, L. calcarata, Bedd. 
F. S. 1. 1. 246, is an abnormal form, with small narrow pinnae taper- 
ing at both ends and less pinnatifid, except sometimes quite at the 
base, where the segments are almost free and distant ; but, as Thwaites 
says, it passes into the type. A form from Birma also has very narrow 
pinnae and is densely hairy. 
Var. p sericea. {J. Sco/t, MS.) Pinnse short oblong, 1-2 inches 
long by i-i inch broad, quite obtuse at the apex, or ending in a 
short sudden point (never caudate), involucre glabrous, otherwise as 
in the type. L. sericea, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 308. This is, perhaps, 
scarcely distinct as a variety from the type, but its geographical limits 
are curious, in North India it has only been found in Chittagong, 
elevation 200 feet, and in South India only on the Jeypore Hills 
west of Vizagapatam, elevation 2,000 feet. I have had it for several 
years in cultivation and it quite kept its character. 
Var. y FALCILOBA. {^Clarke) Stipes angled and furnished 
with auricles below the frond ; pinnae more numerous and narrower, 
4 inches long by \ inch broad ; texture subcoriaceous (more like 
ochthodes) ; indusium glabrous. Lastrea falciloba, Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 
/. 108, in part only. Aspidium hirsutulum. Wall. Cat. 7083, type 
sheet example b, has no auricles (m the stipe, and appears to me to 
belong to the type (ciliata), it only consists of a single small frond, 
and might belong to either, but I fear falci'oba and ciliata are not 
well defined as varieties, but run one into the 01 her. Clarke., 
F. N. 1. 515, excl. t. 105, Bedd. F S. I. 
Khasya and Sikkim mountains up to 3,000 feet and river banks 
in the plains. 
(Clarke's variety pubera does not belong here, IVall. Cat 
338,*being Nephrodium arbuscula (typical), and from the Sirumal- 
lays near Dindigal, not from Nepal. 
