'244 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
tufted, 1-2 feet long, naked, straw-coloured ; fronds up to about 5 feet 
long pinnate ; pinnae shortly stalked up to about i foot long by 1 1^- 
inch broad, cut down to a broadly winged rachis, the lower ones 
scarcely reduced; segments i inch broad, slightly toothed, rather 
distant, with a tooth in the sinus between them, glabrous or sub- 
glabrous, scarcely coriaceous in texture ; rachises glabrous on both 
sides; veins all forked 10-15 on each side; sori small in a single row 
on each side of the costule, nearer the margin than the costule, 
always medial on the superior veinlet (never terminal) ; indusium 
reniform glabrous. Willd. Sp. PL v. 
237. Hook. Syn. Fil. 272. L. specta- 
bilis, Hook. Sp, Fil. iv. 115. Bedd. F 
S. I. t 108. 
]\Ir. Baker says that the groups of 
veins often join, this I have not 
seen in my specimens ; but very 
rarely the two forks of the vein join 
each other before running out at the 
margin; the veinlet is also always con- 
tinued beyond the sorus, I have never 
found a terminal sorus, though they 
often appear to be so until the frond is 
held up to the light. 
South India, not common ; Carcoor 
ghat, 2,000-2,500 feet; Anamallays and 
Travancore Hills. Ceylon, forests of 
the central provinces ; North India. 
Sikkim, Assam and Khasya, up to no great elevation ; Birma and 
Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in the Philippines.) 
22. Lastrea FLACciDA. {Hook.) Stipes tufted, about I foot long, 
slender, glabrous, fronds, feet long, pinnate; pinnae very flaccid 
and membranaceous, 3-4 inches long by nearly i inch broad, cut down 
to the rachis, which has a very distinct narrow wing quite square with 
the rachis, between the pinnules ; pinnules oblong from a very square 
125 
LASTREA FLACCIDA. {Hook.) 
