MR. C. B. CLARKE ON THE FERNS OF NORTHERN INDIA. 543. 
Ind. Suppl. p. 19) that the fern is perhaps an abnormal (exinvolucrate ?) form of Lastrea 
hirtipes, which it resembles in the venation and in the size and situation of the sori. 
2. P. ERUBESCENS, Wall. Cat. 330. Stipes tufted; frond large, not attenuated into the 
stipe; main rhachis with patent soft white hairs or glabrous; pinne cut down 
nearly to the midrib, glabrous on the surface beneath, lobes narrowly oblong, sub- 
acute; sori very close to the midrib of the lobes.-—Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 236; Bedd. 
Ferns Brit. Ind. t. 213; Hk. & Baker, Syn. Fil. 306. 
From Kashmir to Bhotan and Khasia; alt. 3000—7000 feet ; common in the Western 
Himalaya, somewhat rare in Sikkim and Khasia.—Distrib. Malay Peninsula and 
Islands. 
3. P. APPENDICULATUM, Bedd., not of Wall. & Baker. Frond 1-2 feet, lanceolate, not 
attenuate at the base ; main and partial rhachises with spreading needle-like hairs ; 
pinnæ cut down nearly to the midrib, more or less hairy on both surfaces, not dis- 
tinetly gland-bearing at the base; lobes oblong, rounded or scarcely acute; sori 
nearer the midrib of the lobes than the margin.—Bedd. Ferns Brit. Ind. t. 256. 
Nepaul; near Sanko, Winterbottom. Bhotan and Khasia, Griffith. 
A rare fern. It differs from P. auriculatum by being smaller and more slender, by 
the absence of the auricles, and by being truncate at the base. I here describe as 
P. appendiculatum the fern collected by Winterbottom, figured by Beddome. Aspidiwm 
appendiculatum, Wall. Cat. 349, is as to the type sheet JVephrodium canum, Baker : 
among the duplicates of Wall. Cat. 349, are four or five different species, but nothing 
polypodioid except a type specimen of Polypodium erubescens. Baker’s Polypodium 
appendiculatum (Hk. & Baker, Syn. Fil. 306) does not suit any one fern. It might be 
better to drop the name appendiculatum altogether. 
Var. squamestipes. Stipe clothed its whole length with large ovate obtuse brown 
scales, some extending to the main rhachis. (Pl. LX XIX. fig. 2.) 
Sikkim, alt. 6000 feet, Simonbong, C. B. Clarke.—This may be a new species. , The 
stipe is clothed with minute pendent short pubescence, not much resembling the 
needle-like hairs of P. appendiculatum. 
4. P. AURICULATUM, Wall. Cat. 314.  Frond large, lanceolate, attenuate at the base; 
stipe and main rhachis coarsely villous; pinnæ cut down nearly to the midrib, - 
often bearing a prominent gland at their base; lobes broadly oblong obtuse; sori 
nearer the midrib than the margin.—Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 237, excl. var.; Bedd. 
Ferns Brit. Ind. t. 203; Hk. & Baker, Syn. Fil. 306. 
From Gurwhal to Bhotan, alt. 5000-8000 feet; plentiful about Darjeeling. Khasia, 
Myrung Wood, alt. 5000 feet; Hook. f. & T. Thoms.—Distrib. Java. 
Stipe often with many ovate persistent succulent scales. Glands at the base of the 
pinnze sometimes produced into linear hooks 3-1 in. long. 
SECOND SERIES.—BOTANY, VOL. I. AE 
