Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 263 
by 6-8 inches, glabrous, elongate, 3-pinnate, pinnae distant, erect- 
patent, flexuose, lanceolate, two inches broad ; pinnules distant lanceo- 
late, cut down to the rachis below into subquadrangular toothed 
segments (tertiary pinnae) -J inch broad, texture subcoriaceous ; 
rachis and both sides naked ; veinlets forked; sori small, low down 
on the veins near the midrib of the pinnules. Afoore in Hook. 
Sp. Fil. iv. p. 126. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 283. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 226. 
L. splendens, var. /3, Hook. Sp. Fil. 126. 
Nepal, Sikkim (a little-known plant, perhaps abnormal FiUx- 
mas or splendens). 
43. Lastrea sca- 
BROSA {Ku7ize.) Caudex 
stout, suboblique, densely 
paleaceous, stipes 1-3 feet 
long, densely paleaceous 
towards the base, scabrous 
above ; fronds membrana- 
ceous, semitransparent, del- 
toid-ovate acuminate up 
to about 2 feet long, bi- 
pinnate, or subtripinnatc 
above, tripinnate below, 
pinnae alternate, distant 6- 
12 inches long, the lowest 
pair deltoid with some of 
the inferior basal secondary 
pinnae enlarged to double 
the size of the others, which 
are generally i\-2 inches 
long and pinnatifid down to a winged rachis (or almost pinnate) ; 
the pinnules i-^ inch long, cut down one-third to half-way to the 
costa into more or less obtuse segments, veinlets prominent, one 
to each segment, simple or forked, terminating within the margin 
and clavate at the apex ; costa and veins furnished with weak whitish 
LASTREA SCAB ROSA. {Kunzc.) 
