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Beer and other viands were cold and delicious, and no merrier laugh was ever 
re-echoed, on the top of a Ceylon mountain, than on this occasion amongst 
the Buttercups and violets. 
126. Nephrodium (Lastrea) deparoides, Hooker. 
Bed- 1. t. 104. This is a beautiful fern, and can scarcely he confounded 
with any other Ceylon one. “ It has very distinct teeth on which the sori 
are quite terminal, so the plant resembles D&paria , a character quite unique 
in the genus.’’ I found this fern in abundance in company with 150 N. 
(Sagenia) simulans, and 200, Tcenitis blechnoides, in the Kottawa forest, about 
ten miles from Galle. 
127. Nephrodium (Lastrea) thwaitesii, Baker. 
Bed. 1. t. 124. This fern was found by Th waites in the Singhe-rajah 
forest, and described by him as Aspidi urn (Lastrea) concinnum. Beddome’s figure 
shows the sori on the pinna and on the enlarged pinnule to be well in from 
the margin, whereas the sori are “ quite marginal .” The figure is not other- 
wise good for C. F. 3798. Thwaites, remarks indicating its distinctness from 
N. (L.) sparsum (124) are thus qualified by Sir Win. Hooker A. sparsum 
Spr. A. purpurascens Bl. is very variable, and some of my specimens have the sori 
very near the margin. % 
128. Neprodium (Lastrea) odoratum, Baker. 
Bed. 1. t. 95. As Lastrea eriocarpa, Decaisne, I know nothing of this fern 
except that Mr. Wall includes it in the list referred to in my introductory 
notes as a Ceylon one. In his published Catalogue he states that it was 
discovered by Beckett on rocks on the Eastern ranges of the Central Pro- 
vince. 
129. Nephrodium (Lastrea) recedens, Hk, 
Bed. 1. t. 98 C. P. 1374. Not an uncommon fern in the Central Pro- 
vince. In the jungle adjoining Lady Horton’s Walk and elsewhere. This fern 
and 131. N. (L.) intermedium, are so like each other in size cutting, and 
their dark brown color, in the herbarium, that I found my specimens of the 
two mixed up : — Why 130 should come in between I do not know, it is very 
unlike either of them. 
130. Nephrodium (Lastrea) membranifolium, Presl. 
Bed. 1. t. 102. This fern is so like 151, in size and general appearance 
when growing and in the dried state, that I found them mixed up in my 
• collection. The free veins of this, with the forked veins in the sinus of the lobes, 
and the netted veins > of N. (Sagenia) gigantea, will enable the collector to 
separate them with ease however. — No. 130 though an alpine fern will grow 
freely in Colombo. It is very unlike 129 and 131 though it comes in between -¥ 
them. 
131. Nephrodium (Lastrea) intermedium. Baker. 
Bed. 1. t. 249, C. P. 3059. A good deal like 129 in a dried state. The 
involucre is so fugacious that it is rarely seen on the old specimens of this 
fern, and it is therefore very like a Polypodium. See my remarks on 129. This 
is evidently a rare fern in Ceylon compared with 129. I found it in abundance .. 
in the reserved piece of Forest belonging to the Holy wood Estate in Dimboola. 
13‘2. Nephrodium (Lastrea) obtusilobum, Baker. 
Bed. 11. t. 296. “Hab: Ceylon, Dr. Thwaites, C. P. 3142. Most like 
N. intermedium in size and cutting, but the scales different, the under side very 
glandular, and the texture thinner.” Baker. In the C. P. numbers now before 
me, and in my own specimens of these two ferns, the dark brown color of 
both is much the same, but the cutting seems very different as seen on the 
specimens and on a reference to Beddome’s figures. N. obtusilobum, is a good 
deal like old specimens of Davallia Speluncge in cutting. Found on the Horton 
Plains and the higher ranges, and at Neura Elliya. 
