Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 257 
tertiary rachis a little scaly, ultimate segments oblong blunt ; texture 
subcoriaceous ; veins pinnate or forked in the ultimate segments ; 
sori below the middle of the veins and near the costules (never apical 
on a veinlet as in pulvinulifera) ; involucre reniform, glabrous, per- 
sistent. Hook. Syn. Fil p. 498. Lastrea pulvinulifera, Hook. I. c, 
500, in part only. Nephrodium pulvinulifera, Clarke, F. N. 1, p. 
525, in part only. 
Himalayas, near Darjeeling, 7,500 feet elevation. 
(Also in Natal and Bourbon.) 
32. Lastrea spectabilis. {Wall, binder Aspidiiim.) Stipes 
i-i^ foot long and with the rachises purple-coloured and furnished 
with patent hnear subulate reddish-brown scales ; fronds 2-4 feet 
long, more than i foot broad, subdeltoid, tripinnate with the tertiary 
pinnules deeply pinnatifid, and their segments again crenated or 
serrated, lowest pinnae largest, deltoid, unequal-sided, the two lower 
basal secondary pinnae being much produced ; texture moderately 
firm, the costa of the pinnules and veins of the segments sparingly 
furnished with long weak setae most copious on the upper side, 
otherwise glabrous, sori medial on the upper basal veinlet of the 
segment; involucre reniform. Wall. Cat. 372. Clarke, F. N. I. 
p. 526. Lastrea Hendersoni, Bedd. Fern Sup. f. 377. 
Khasya on Shillong Hill 5,000-6,500 feet elevation ; Nepal. 
33. Lastrea deparioides. {Moore under Diclisodon.) Stipes 
about I foot, long, firm, slightly scaly below ; fronds up to 2 feet 
long, oblong-lanceolate, bipinnate with the pinnules deeply pin- 
natifid, pinnae 4-6 inches long, 2 inches broad, lanceolate, the 
secondary rachis with a very narrow inconspicuous wing, pin- 
nules stalked, deltoid, unequal sided, with broad blunt subquad- 
rangular lower segments and prominent teeth, texture rather 
firm, rachis and both surfaces naked ; sori terminal in the teeth 
which the convex involucres quite conceal. Diclisodon, Moore, 
Index Fil. 316. Lastrea deparioides, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 104. Hook. 
Sy?t. Fil. 277. 
South India, on the Anamallay Hills, 2,000 feet elevation ; 
Ceylon, southern provinces. 
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