246 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
base, and obtuse at the apex, ratlier deeply lobed (about half down) ; 
the segments being falcate, lower pinnae soir ewhat distant and a little 
reduced in size, and sometimes deflexed ; main rachis slightly 
hairy, partial rachis costules and veins furnished with longish weak 
brown hairs above, and beneath with long white needle-like hairs ; 
veins pinnate in the ultimate segments in fully developed fronds, 
forked or even simple in smaller examples ; sori generally terminal 
or near the apex of a veinlet ; indusium small reniform. Jlook. Sy7i. 
Fil p. 274. Bedd. F. S. I. t 250. 
Mr. Clarke has jomed this with L. gracilescens^ but quite wrongly 
in my opinion^ itsj^eal affinity is with L, tenericaulis^ which it strongly 
7'esembles, and of which it may he a more simple form. 
South India, Travancore Hills, rare. Ceylon, about Newera 
Elya and the highest part of central provinces. Himalayas up to 
6,000 feet. 
(Also in Java.) 
23. Lastrea Brunoniana. (JVall.) Stipes tufted, 4-6 inches 
long, black, densely clothed with large dark-brown lanceolate scales, 
fronds 12-18 inches long, 2-4 inches broad, with numerous close 
subequal oblong-lanceolate blunt pinnae, the lower ones reduced, the 
largest 1^-2 inches long, -| inch broad, cut down nearly to the 
rachis into sharply toothed rounded lobes 1^-2 lines broad, texture 
herbaceous, rachises ebeneous and more or less clothed with long 
fibrillose scales, under surfaces naked, sori copious, medial on the 
veinlets. Asp. Brunonianum, IVall. Cat. 344. I/ooh. Syn. Fil. 274. 
Bedd. F. B. I. t. 37. 
Himalayas, 11,000 to 16,000 feet, Kashmir to Bhotan. Very 
like L. odontoloma in texture and cutting, knowing so little of the 
plant as I do, I should not like to suggest it is the same, but I had 
great difficulty in distinguishing between some specimens of these 
two in the Kew Herbarium, and Mr. Clarke named one specimen he 
gave me of this " odontoloma." 
24. Lastrea barbigera. {Hook.) Stipes tufted, 6-12 inches 
long, densely clothed with large bright-trown scales and soft silky 
