COLLECTED IN SIKKIM. 489 
PHEGOPTERIS PUNCTATA, Mett. Keuzing, in open scrub, c. 6000’, 2, v. (16635, 16636). 
MOXACHOSORUM SUBDIGITATUM, Kuntze (Phegopteris, Beddome). Senchal, c. 8000’, 
ll.iv. (15862, 16584); between Pemiongchi and Sangachelling, c. 6800', 
4. v. (16597). 
GONIOPTERIS UROPHYLLA, Presl. Between Ramtek Gompa and Murtam, e. 6000' 
30. iv. (15935, 15936). 
GONIOPHLEBIUM AMŒNUM, J. Sm. Between Rhikisum and Pedong, с. 5800’, 26. iv. 
(15898); between the Roro Chu and Gangtok, c. 4000', 28. iv. (15899, 15900). 
NIPHOBOLUS ADNASCENS, Áaulf. Near Pashok (leg. Lister), e, 3000' (16587); be- 
tween Song and the Tista, с. 2000', 1. v. (16592, 16593); below Keuzing, 
с. 2000”, 3. v. (16590, 16591). 
—— BEDDOMEANUS, Gies (Polypodium costatum, Wall.). Between Song and the 
Tista, с. 3000’, 1. v. (16592, 16593). 
—— Hereractis, J. Sm. Between Pemiongchi and Sangachelling, с. 6900’, 4. v. 
(16586). 
—— NUMMULARLEFOLIUM, J. Sim. Below Pashok, e. 3000', 21.iv. (1 6576). 
—— POROSUS, Presl. Between Pashok and the Tista (leg. Lister), с. 2000" (16577); 
near Sangachelling, с. 6600’, 4. v. (16578). 
LEPTOGRAMME AURITA, Bedd. Soshing Gompa above Keuzing, c. 6000", 2. v. (15924, 
15925). 
GYMNOGRAMME MICROPHYLLA, Hook, Senchal, on stones, c. 8000’, 11, iv. (15901). 
CEROPTERIS CALOMELANOS, Underw. Ina rocky gully above the road from Tista 
Bazar to Pashok, с. 1000', 21. iv. (16775, 16776, 16777). 
The presence of this fern below Pashok has long been known to 
Mr. Lister of Pashok, and it has been observed there by others, but does 
not seem to have been recorded. It is very plentiful at the spot where 
Т found it, which is quite in the jungle and miles from any garden, 
Mr. Lister writes as follows on the 18th Jan. 1914 :—* T am interested in 
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the fern you collected on the south of Pashok, which seems to have been 
overlooked by Beddome. Many years ago I tried to bring under tea cul- 
tivation the site of an old copper smelting kiln, where there was a thick 
coating of refuse, and one of the common weeds that appeared was the 
mealy fern." И the fern referred to was really calomelanos, the presence of 
the spores in the soil at such a place remains quite unexplained. Tt is not 
the case of seeds that may be carried great distances by birds, In the 
Caleutta herbarium there are specimens “naturalised” from Mercara, 
Coorg, as well as from Java and Malacca, and in Aldeverelt van Rosen- 
burgh’s * Handbook of Malayan Ferns’ (1909) calomelanos is stated to occur 
not infrequently as an escape in the neighbourhood of gardens. But there 
is not and never was any garden near the glen above the Tista. 
DRYNARIA PROPINQUA, J. Sm. Below Pashok, с. 3000’, 19. iv. (15891, 15892); 
ibidem, с. 2600", 20. iv. (15893) ; near Song, c. 5000’, 1. v. (15889, 15890). 
CORONANS, Bedd. Between Badantam and the Great Ranjit, c. 1800’, 9. iv. 
(15918); below Pashok, с. 2500' (15913, 15914, 15915). 
Diereris WALLICHII, 7. Moore. Rampokri in the Daling district (leg. Lister) 
(15916). 
