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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
34, Lastrea Thwaitesii. {Baker.) Quite like the last in 
general outline and habit, except that the pinnules are less cut and 
the segments bluntly lobed instead of having prominent teeth, and the 
sori just within the margin ; it is probably only a variety of depari- 
oides or the normal form of it, as that species is very abnormal in the 
genus. Hook. Syn. Fil. /. 277. L. concinna {Thwaites), Bedd. 
F. S, 1. t. 246. 
Ceylon, southern pro- 
vinces, 2,000 feet elevation. 
35. Lastrea crenata. 
(Forsk under Polypodiwn.) 
Stipes up foot long, straw 
coloured, glossy, densely 
clothed at the base with a tuft 
of golden lanceolate-linear 
scales, fronds up to li foot 
long, 3-4-pinnate deltoid, 
lowest pinnae much the largest 
deltoid, 6-9 inches long, 3-4 
inches broad, pinnules lan- 
ceolate, often imbricated, with 
ovate or oblong pinnatifid 
segments, with blunt rounded 
lobes : texture herbaceous. 
colour pale green ; rachises pilose or subglabrous, surfaces pilose ; 
sori copious, medial on the veinlets ; indusium large, pale coloured, 
villous. Forsk. Fl. yFgypt.- Arab. 185. Lastrea eriocarpa ; {Deaie) 
Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 141. Bedd. F S. I. t. gs- Nephrodium odoratum 
{Baker), Hook. Sy7i. Fil. p. 280. Aspidium pilosulum. Wall. Cat. 
337 ; and subdiaphanum, 343. 
Himalayas from Gurwhal to Bhotan, 2,000-7,000 feet elevation, 
Khasya, 2,000-4,500 feet, Chota Nagpore, 2,000-3,000 feet ; South 
India, on the Anamallays, PeringoondaHill, 5,000 feet, and elsewhere 
on the western ghats, but rare ; Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. 
