534 MR. C. B. CLARKE ON THE FERNS OF NORTHERN INDIA, 
North and East Bengal, near the foot of the hills, alt. 0—1500 feet, from Nepaul to 
Assam and Chittagong, frequent.—Distrib. Malacca. 
Col. Beddome sends to Kew a piece from the middle of a Nilgherry frond which seems 
N. crinipes. Beddome’s figure, t. 263, shows the main rhachis hairy : the distinguishing 
mark of the species is that the scales are from a lanceolate base. 
[.N. feroz, Moore, Hk. & Baker, Syn. Fil. 294, is said to have been found in Kumaon. 
It has the stem with harsh scales, the sori in two rows next the midrib of the pinnz, 
and coriaceous texture. There is at Kew one mixed sheet of specimens, one piece of 
which is N. feroz. The sheet is marked ** Kumaon, Wallich v. Wight." I should 
require very much additional evidence before believing that a low-level Malay fern, 
N. ferox, is to be found in Kumaon. It is not a plant to be easily overlooked; but no 
one now can find it in Kumaon. | 
AL N. TRuNCATUM, Presl, Tent. Pterid. 81. Tufted; stipe and main rhachis pube- 
rulous or slightly nehrecetes lowest pinne smaller, remote, often reduced to 
auricles; pinnæ cut 4-4 down into oblong truncate lobes, glabrous or nearly so, 
1-2 pairs of veins antag ; involucres small, fugacious.—Carr. in Fl. Viti. 363; 
Hk. & Baker, Syn. Fil. 204. AN abruptum, Presl; Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 77, t. 241 B. 
N. Hudsonianum, Brack. U.S. Explor. Ferns, t. 25. AN. eusorum, Bedd. Ferns South. 
Ind. t. 130. Aspidium truncatum, Gaud.; Luerssen, Fil. Graeff. 192; Benth. Fl. 
Austral. vii. 756. A. abruptum, Blume, Enum. Pl. Jav. Fil. 154. A. multilineatum, 
Wall. Cat. 353. A. prionophyllum, Wall. Cat. 355, chiefly and as to type sheet. 
A. eusorum, Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 391. Polystichum truncatum, Gaud. in 
Freycinet, Voy. Bot. 333, t. 10. 
Cachar, R. L. Keenan. Chittagong Hills, alt. 250 feet ; C. B. Clarke.—Distrib. South 
India, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Islands, North Australia, Polynesia. 
Very near the large glabrescent form of N. parasiticum. It can generally be 
recognized by the truncate toothed apex of the lobes and its thin texture, but is very 
doubtfully separable (see Benth. Z. c.). A. venulosum, Wall. Cat. 352, placed in the 
N. truncatum Kew bundle, is (for me) N. parasiticum. 
Subgenus III. Pleocnemia. Frond 1-2-8-pinnate. Lowest pair of veinlets in the 
ultimate pinna, at least in the lower part of the barren frond, uniting; veinlets in 
the ultimate lobes often forked or pinnate; no free veinlets included within the 
looped veins. | : 
42, N. wEMBRANIFOLIUM, Presl, Rel. Hænck. 36, t. 5. fig. 3. Stipes tufted, with black 
linear-subulate scales near the base; free pinnæ 1-8 pairs, the lower sometimes 
completely pinnate; main rhachis and both surfaces of the fronds more or less 
softly hairy with multicellular hairs; veins in the barren portions of the frond . 
looped (at least a few of them); fronds uniform, subdimorphie or strongly di- 
morphic.—Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 181, t. 261; Hk. & Baker, Syn. Fil. 282, partly, not 
N. dissectum, Hk. & Baker, Syn. Fil. (2nd ed.), 282. Zeien fuscipes, Wall. Cat. 
