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crenated lobes, texture herbaceous, rachis slender, villous, and both 
sides slightly so, veinlets 6-8 on a side, simple (very rarely forked) ; 
sori small medial on the veins, indusium reniform, glabrous or pilose. 
Baker, Hook. S}m. Fil. 267, not Wallich, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 307. 
L. Bergiana, Bedd. F. B. I. Suppl. t. 370. Aspid. appendiculatum, 
Wall. Cat. 349, type sheet only. Aspid. eberneum, Wall. Cat. 
389, type sheet only. 
Himalayas near Simla, Sikkim, Yakla 8,000 feet elevation. 
Mr. Clarke thinks this may be only a variety of ochthodes, but it has 
no glands at the base of the pinnae, the 
texture also is different, and it is more 
hairy. 
14. Lastrea Beddomei. {Baker). 
Rhizome slender, wide creeping ; stipes 
6-9 inches long, slender, glossy ; fronds 
pinnate up to about i foot long, lanceo- 
late elliptic, central pinnae the largest, 
about i|- inches long, f inch broad, 
cut down almost to the rachis into close 
rather acute entire segments under i line 
broad, lower pinnae distant and dwin- 
dling down very gradually, texture 
rather firm, veins beneath furnished 
sparingly with longish white needle-like 
hairs, veinlets 4-5 on each side, simple 
sori near the margin. Baker, Hook. 
N°I22 
Syn. Fil. p. 267. L. gracilescens, Bedd lastre.4. beddomei. 
F. S. I. t. no. [Baker.) 
South India on the Travancore and Tinnevelly Mountains in 
swampy ground. Ceylon, common in swampy places about Newera 
Elya. A pretty delicate species much cultivated at OotacapQund. 
15. Lastrea Elwesii. {Baker.) Stipe not seen, main rachis 
minutely pubescent; fronds oblong-lanceolate, narrowed from the 
midrib at both ends, 16 inches long, by 4I- inches broad, glabrous, 
pinnate ; pinn^ patent, subobtuse, cut down only one-half towards 
