454 MR. C. B. CLARKE ON THE FERNS OF NORTHERN INDIA. 
North-west Himalaya, alt. 6000-9000 feet, scattered, not plentiful; from Gurwhal 
(Strachey & Winterbottom) to Sikkim (Sir J. D. Hooker).—Distrib. Japan, North America 
(nearly the whole). 
6. A. FLABELLULATUM, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1557. Scales on the rhizome long, linear, lax, 
chestnut-coloured ; rhachis hairy, repeatedly dichotomous; segments glabrous; sori 
often 45; in. broad.— Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. 30; Bedd. Ferns South. Ind. t. 218 ; Hk. & Baker, 
Syn. Fil. 126, not of Wall. 4. amenum, Wall. Cat..78; Hk. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 103. 
Nepaul, Wallich. Assam, Simons. Khasia, Hk. f. & T., T. Lobb. Sylhet, Hk. f & T. 
—Distrib. Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Islands, South China, and Japan. 
In A. hispidulum, Swartz (A. flabellulatum, Wall. Cat. 2177, not of Linn.), the scales 
on the rhizome are lanceolate, shining black, rigid, adpressed; the sori scarcely Ze in. 
broad. 
16. CHEILANTHES. 
* Fronds not powdered beneath ; stipe and main rhachis scaly and hairy. 
1. CH. FRAGRANS, Swartz, Syn. Fil. 127, 325, 326, t. iii. fig. 6. Frond bipinnate, tripin- 
natifid, or tripinnate; ultimate segments: $ in. in diam., ovate or round, without hairs 
beneath.— Webb & Berth. Phyt. Canar. iii. 452; Mett. Ferngatt. Cheil. 38; Hook. 
Sp. Fil.ii. 81; Milde, Fil. Europ. 34; Bedd. Ferns Brit. Ind. t. 338; Hk. & Baker, 
Syn. Fil. 134. Ch. odora, Swartz, Syn. Fil. 127, 327 ; Schkuhr, Crypt. t. 123. Ch. sua- 
veolens, Swartz, Syn. Fil. 127; Sibth. Fl. Greec. t. 966. Polypodium fragrans; Linn. 
Mant. 307, not Sp. Pl. 1550. 
Mts. S. of Kashmir; Murree, alt. 4000-5000 feet, H. QC. Levinge. Kishtwar, 
alt. 3500-5000 feet, C. B. Clarke.—Distrib. Cabul, all round the Mediterranean, Ma- 
caronesia. 3 
The partial rhachises are often scaly and hairy with chestnut submoniliform hairs; 
but the surface of the frond beneath is entirely devoid of the plentiful white curled 
woolly hairs so abundant in the next species.—Mr. Baker carefully follows Sir W. J. ` 
Hooker in stating that the present species is not Swartz's Cheilanthes fragrans, while 
they both say it is Polypodium fragrans of Linnzeus's * Mantissa., Swartz (Syn. Fil. 326) 
states not only that his Ch. fragrans is Linnsus's Polypodium fragrans, but that to 
prevent confusion he obtained, through Sir J. E. Smith, from Linneus’s Herbarium the 
ipsissimum exemplum collected by Koenig on which Linnzus founded the species. 1 E. 
suspect that the whole blunder arose because Webb and Berth. supposed Kcenig’s ex- 
ample to have come from India, and that therefore their own Macaronesian fern would — 
be something different. Sir W. J. Hooker (Sp. Fil. ii. 94) says that Swartz’s Ch. fra- = 
grans was of Indian origin, gathered by Koenig probably in the Madras Peninsula; ` ` 
but on turning to Linn. Mant. 307 it will be seen that Kcenig’s specimen was oci | 
not in India, but on the walls of Funchal, m it grows now. Ty ue 
2. Cn. SzovrrZu, Fisch. & Meyer, in Bull. Soc. Mose. 1838, 241. Frond bipinnate, tri- 
pinnatifid or — ultimate segments } in. in diam., round, with miang crisped À 
