Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 243 
side, mostly forked ; sori small, submarginal ; involucre ciliated. 
Hook. Syn. Fil p. 271. BeM. F. B. 1. t. 335. 
South India, near Cochin, only once collected. 
20. Lastrea fuscipes. {Wall.) Stipes tufted, slender 6-12 
inches long, dark purplish -brown, scaly below, fronds 12-24 inches 
long, 6-12 inches broad, oblong-lanceolate, pinnate; pinnae 3-6 
inches long, 1 inch broad, the lowest pair rather shorter than the 
others, and deflexed, and with some of its lower segments often 
elongated ; segments cut down to a broadly-winged rachis, Unear- 
oblong, blunt, entire or slightly crenate ; texture herbaceous, 
rachis polished like the stipe ; veinlets 6-8 on each side, simple 
LASTREA SYRMATICA. 
or forked, generally excurrent when sterile, but terminating well 
within the margin when fertile ; sori generally apical on a veinlet, 
sometimes well below the apex ; indusium reniform fugacious. 
Wall. Cat. 361. Lastrea melanopus, Hook. 'Sp. Fil. iv. 110. 
Bedd. F. B. 1. f. T^S. L. sagenioides. Hook. Syn. Fil. 271. Poly- 
podium obscurum, Hjok. Sp. Fil. iv. 237. Syn. Fil. 308. 
Bedd F. B. I. t. 230. 
Birma and the Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in the Philippine Islands.) 
The type sheet of Aspidiuin fuscipes in Wallich's Herbarium^ No. 
361, is this plant., but the other sheets are Pleocneuila niini^jranifolia, 
21. Lastrea syrmatica. {Willd. under Aspidium). Stipes 
