Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 241 
reduced in size and often more distant, the partial rachis channelled 
and glabrous on the upper side, slightly pubescent or glabrous 
beneath, and there furnished with numerous broad-ovate or lunate 
very transparent scales, segments oblong to ovate entire much 
recurved at the margins ; veins more or less undulate ; veinlets 
simple excurrent at the margin ; sori one on the centre of each vein- 
let ; involucre reniform, fimbriate at the margin. Bedd. F. B. I. 
t. 254. 
Pulney Mountains, in swamps about the south base of Peermall 
Malley, 4,000 feet elevation. It was also formerly found about the 
lake at Kodiekarnal on the same mountains, but has disappeared 
fiom that locality. In my Supplement I have reduced it to 
thelypteris^ but now believe it to be distinct. In its reduced lower 
pinnae it approaches Beddoinei^ but it is much more rigid in texture, 
and its scaly secondary rachis is quite unlike that fern. I hope it 
may b^ further collected. There is a specimen in the British 
Museum. 
B. Veins forked. 
18. Lastrea thelypteris. {Desv.) Rhizome slender, wide- 
creeping, stipes about i foot long, slender stramineous ; fronds 
1-2 feet long, 4-6 inches broad, lanceolate, truncate at the base ; 
pinnae spreading, \ inch broad, cut down very nearly to the rachis into 
entire spreading linear oblong lobes, those of the barren frond the 
broadest, lower pinnae equalling the others, veins forked (upper ones 
simple) texture herbaceous, rachis and both sides naked, sori small, 
not confluent, in rows near the recurved edge ; indusium small incon- 
spicuous. Besv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. 6. 257. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 44. 
Hook. Syn. Fil. 271. 
South India, on the Nilgiris, swamps near Ootacamund j 
North India, Kashmir, Bandipoor, City Lake, 5,600 feet elevation, 
Kunawur, 6,000 feet. 
(Also in Europe, North Asia, North America, Cape Colony and 
New Zealand.) 
19. Lastrea grisea. {Baker.) Stipes firm, erect, grey, villous 
upwards ; fronds i|-2 feet long, 8-9 inches broad, oblong-lanceolate : 
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