Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 251 
rachises glabrous, or sometimes scaly. Bon. Prod. Fl. Nep, 6 
Bedd, F. S. I. t. 115, Aithobotrys macrocarpa, Wall. Cat. 395. 
North India up to 4,000 feet elevation; South India, Western 
mountains 2,000-4,000 feet ; Malay Peninsula. A very distinct 
looking plant in its typical form at low elevations, but running it to 
elongata at higher elevations {vide forms of my collecting on the 
Nilgiris and Brumagherries in. the British Museum). 
Var. £ PANDA. {Clarkf, 
F.N. I. p. 519, 68,/- I.) 
Fronds simply pinnate, truncate 
at the base, narrow oblong, 
pinna3 pinnatifid towards 
the midrib, segments sub- 
spinulose. 
Himalayas, Dhurmsala, 
10,000-11,000 feet elevation. 
This has much the aspect of 
odontoloma, and it will pro- 
bably prove to be a luxuriant 
form of that plant ; if a 
variety of Filix-mas, it cer- 
tainly connects odontoloma 
with it. 
t t t Fro7tds compound., 2-/\pm7iate. 
2j. Lastrea rigid a. {Besv.) Stipes tufted, 6 inches long, 
densely clothed below with large lanceolate or ovate scales ; fronds 
up to 2 feet long, oblong-lanceolate, largest pinnae 3-4! inches long, 
i-i^ inch broad, the pinnules of the lower half free ovate rhomboidal, 
cut down nearly to the rachis below, teeth mucronate ; ^xture herba- 
ceous ; rachises usually scaly, under side naked or slightly glandular ; 
veinlets subpinnate in the lower lobes of the pinnules; sori near the 
midrib; indusium firm prominent. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 275. Clarke^ 
F.N. I. p. 523. 
Very near L. FiHx-mas elongata, and I cannot say I know any 
character to distinguish it. 
^ N9I30. 
LASTREA FILIX-MAS. (Z.) 
VAR. I COCHLEAT^. [Doil.) 
