Ferns of British India an d Ceylon. 255 
Ceylon (near Newera Elya), 5,000 feet elevation. Lastrea undulata 
{Thzvattes), Bedd. F. S. I. t. 271. 
Mr. Clarke's variety latesquama, does not differ from what I 
consider the type of sparsa, which agrees exactly with Wall. Cat. 390, 
Asp. densum, and Wall. Cat. 7080, Asp. oppositum. 
30. Lastrea pulvinulifera. {Bedd.) Stipe up to 30 inches 
long, furnished with a dense cushion-like mass of golden scales at 
the base (as in L. odorata), and clothed throughout (especially in the 
older specimens), as are therachis and partial rachises, with numerous 
narrow black scales, which proceed from a broad base, and which are 
generally more copious at the axils of the pinnae ; fronds ample, up to 
30 inches long (without the stipe) by 18 inches broad near the base, 
deltoid, tripinnate, coriaceous-herbaceous ; pinnae gradually decreasing 
in size from the base to the apex, lower pair opposite, large deltoid 
with the pinnules of the lower margin much the largest, remaining 
pinnae alternate or rarely subopposite or opposite ; pinnules up to 
4 inches long in the basal pinnae, with their secondary pinnules equal 
to the primary pinnules on the upper parts of the frond ; segments 
obtusely rounded, entire or lobed, and occasionally dentate or crenate, 
glabrous on both sides, but sometimes furnished with a few weak 
setcE on the costules and veins on the upper side ; veinlets incon- 
spicuous, terminating within the margin ; sori terminal on the lower 
veinlet ; involucre reniform glabrous. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 333. Las- 
trea pulvinulifera (Baker), Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 500, in part only. 
Clarke^ F. N. I. p. 525, in part only . Lastrea sparsa, var. squamulosa, 
Clarke^ I. c. p. 524, in part. 
Sikkim, very common about Darjeeling. Perhaps only a very 
compound form of sparsa. 
31. Lastrea Buchanani. {Baker.) Stipes tufted up to i 
foot long, dark coloured at the base, straw-coloured upwards, densely 
clothed as is the rachis, with long spreading rather rigid black hairs \ 
fronds ovate to deltoid, tripinnate, with the tertiary pinnules from 
subentire to pinnatifid, secondary rachis hairy, lowest pinnae largest 
deltoid unequal sided from being more compound at the base. 
