Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 259 
(Also in Tropical Africa ; Mauritius ; South China.) 
36. Lastrea Parishii. {Hook.) Caudex creeping, stipe 6-9 
inches long, slender, naked, ebeneous, fronds small, 6-8 inches each 
way, deltoid, the lower pinnae much the largest, lower pinnules larger 
than the others, which are oblong-lanceolate acuminate i|-2 inches 
long by i-f- inch broad, cut down 
nearly to the rachis into close oblong- 
lanceolate crenated lobes, texture mem- 
branaceous, rachises and under surfaces 
pubescent ; veinlets pinnate or forked 
in the lobes ; sori in two rows, not far 
from the midrib, apical on a veinlet 
or situated well below the apex, indu- 
sium reniform. Hook. Syn. Fil. /. 
281, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 43. 
Birma, Moulmein, moist shady 
places on limestone rocks. 
37. Lastrea sikkimensis. {Bedd. 
under Polystichiim. ) Stipes and rachises 
rather copiously furnished with per- 
sistent ovate acute blackish scales, 
fronds ovate acuminate up to 3 feet 
long, subcoriaceous-membranaceous, bipinnate, primary pinnae 4-6 
inches long, oblong acuminate, secondary pinnules oblong, deeply 
pinnatifid, \ inch to i inch long, tertiary pinnules sharply and 
deeply cut, with the segments acuminate and falcate, costa of the 
pinnules waved, veins simple or forked, terminating within the margin, 
sori generally one to each segment, terminal on a veinlet, involucre 
reniform. Polystichum sikkimense, Bedd. F.B.I, t. 127. Nephro- 
dium, Clarke^ F. N. I. p. ^2^. Hook. Syn. Fil. 256. 
Sikkim, Mon Lepcha, 10,000-12,000 feet elevation. 
38. Lastrea blumei. {Hook.) Stipes up to about 2 feet 
long, stout, very shaggy, with long linear rufous scales, rachises 
LASTREA PARISHII. {Hook.) 
