526 MR. C. B. CLARKE ON THE FERNS OF NORTHERN INDIA. 
24. N. SPECTABILE, C. B. Clarke, not of Hook. Stipe long, with many lanceolate patent 
persistent scales ; main and partial rhachises with scattered narrow lanceolate-linear 
patent brown-red scales ; frond 2-4 feet, ovate, glabrous, sub-4-pinnate; quaternary 
pinnze oblong, entire, crenate or scarcely serrate; sori small, near the midrib of the 
tertiary and quaternary pinnze; involucres fugacious.—Aspidium spectabile, Wall. 
Cat. 372. Lastrea Hendersoni, Bedd. Ferns Brit. Ind. Suppl. 17, t. 377. D. Atkin- 
sont, Henderson in Kew Herb. formerly. 
Nepaul, Wallich. Khasia, alt. 5000-6500 feet, Shillong Hill, Mairung; Griffith, &c. 
This is 4. spectabile, Wall. type sheet; among Wallich’s plants issued under this 
name are Nephrodium pulvinuliferum and Spheropteris barbata. N. spectabile is closely 
allied to A. pulvinuliferum; the scales in N. spectabile are shorter, broader at the base, 
and much softer, the rhachis not rough from their harsh bases; the sori are smaller and 
more generally scattered. 
25. N. mHoporzrIS, C. B. Clarke. Stipe long, stout; frond large, ovate, 3-pinnate, 4- 
pinnatifid; primary, secondary, and tertiary rhachises with ovate, acute, subadpressed 
hyaline, rose-mauve scales ; primary pinne often 15 in.; tertiary pinnæ deeply 
pinnatifid into oblong entire lobes, glabrous beneath ; sori small, near the midrib of 
the lobes; involucre fugacious.—Lastrea Blumei, Bedd. Ferns South. Ind. t. 249, 
not Aspidium intermedium; Blume. (Pl. LXXII.) 
Sikkim, Assam, Khasia, alt. 5000—7000 feet. Chittagong, alt. 150 feet, C. B. Clarke 
(very small form).—Distrib. Ceylon, Japan, Malaya, Polynesia. 
Aspidium intermedium, Blume, Enum. Pl. Jav. Fil. 161, is Nephrodium Blumei, Hook. 
Sp. Fil. iv. 135. Blume describes the pinne as deeply pinnatifid. The specimen of 
Blume closely fits his own (and Hooker’s) description: the scales on the main rhachis 
are linear; the frond is 1-pinnate, nearly 2-pinnate; the secondary pinne are large, 
fibrillose beneath and on the margin. The plant is totally unlike the Indian plant called 
Blumei v. intermedium by Thwaites and Maximowiez; and which Sir W. J. Hooker 
marked “near L. recedens." In so great confusion I have proposed a new name. The 
beautifully hyaline, rose-mauve, ovate, acute, hexagonal-celled scales are abundant and 
prominent in the North-India and J apan plants; and some are present in the Ceylon 
examples, though they hardly appear in Beddome's otherwise correct figure. — 
26. N. INGENS, W. S. Atkinson, MS. Stipe and main rhachis pubescent, and with lax 
narrow-lanceolate sparse brown deciduous scales; frond 6-9 feet, 3-4-pinnate; ter- 
tiary rhachises beneath with lax glistening multicellular patent hairs; fertile por- 
tions of the frond much contracted; sori large; involucres sometimes aspidioid 
or nearly so. (Pl. LXXIII.) 
Sikkim and Bhotan, alt. 4000-7000 feet, frequent. Khasia; alt. 3000-5000 feet, 
frequent. i OP Sa ad cas,” 
Put in the same bundle at Kew with JV. dissectum and N. fuscipes, but no one has - 
ventured to write either of those names on it. It is the largest Indian Lastrea of 
