78 JO UENAL, BOMB A Y NATURAL HISTOE 7 SO CIETY, Vol. XV. 



THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 



Including Afghanistan, the Trans-Indus Feotected States, and Kashmir: 

 arranged and named on the basis of Hooker and Baker's Synopsis Filicum, and 

 other works, with New Species added. 



By C. W. Hope. 



(Continued from page 749, Vol. XIV.) 



Part III.— THE GENERAL LIST— {continued). 



Genus 26.— POLYPODIUM, L. 



Subgenus Phegopteris, Fee. 



1. P. erubescens, Wall. ; Syn. Fil. 306 ; C. R. 543. Phegopteris 

 erubescens, Wall, (under Potypodium), Bedd. H. B. 289. 



Kashmir : Basaoli, 5500', Clarke 1876 ; MacLeod 1891 : " mouth of gorge near 30th 

 milestone, in very wet soil, G^OGO'." 



Punjab : Hazara Dist. — Siran Ptange, coll. Inayat, Sahar. Herb, collr. 1899 ; 

 Chamba State, McDonell, J. Marten 1898, Kullu— 6-8000', Coventry 1894 ; Simla 

 Reg.— Edgeworth, Bates : near Simla 5-6000', and Mashobra 7-8000', Blanford : " at 

 the bottom of some of the deep valleys below Simla, where it is pretty common. 

 My highest elevation is about 5500' " ; Sirmur, T. Thomson. 



N.-W. P. : D. D. Dist.— Jaunsar 4500', C. G. Rogers ; Mussooree 4-6000', by water, 

 not uncommon ; T. Garh.— Phedi 4-5000', and below Laluri 3-4000', Duthie ; 

 B. Garh. — Mrs. Fisher ; Kumaun — B. B. 1827, Wallich type specimen ; Ramganga 

 R. and Karim 6200', S. and W. 1848 ; Naini Tal 55-6000', Hope 1861 ; Davidson, 

 Trotter ; ridge above Bageswar 6000', MacLeod 1893. 



DiSTRib.— J-sia : N. Ind. (Him.), Nepal, Wallich Sikkim ; Assam — Khasia 3-7000', 

 " somewhat rare." Malay Penins. and Isles. China — Yunnan, Delavay 1886, 



Lowest pair of pinnae deflesed. Stipes and rhachises not always pink : 

 sometimes pale-yellow or straw-coloured. Grows in wet ground below springs, 

 or by tbe sides of streams — tbe fronds bending over the water, and attains a large 

 size, 10 ft. long, including the long stipes — if my memory serves me rightly as 

 to Naini Tal specimens. A Chamba specimen has pinna? 13? in. 1. by l£ br. 

 It grows 8 ft. high in Mussooree. 



2. P. auriCUlatum, Wall. ; Syn. Fil. 306 ; C. E. 543. Phegopteris 

 auriculata, Wall, (under Polypodium), Bedd. H. B. 290. 



Punjab : Chamba State — McDonell ; Simla Beg. — Edgeworth ; near Koti 6000', 

 Gamble 1878 ; Samal Vy. (below Simla) 4500', Blanford : " very rare in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Simla. I have met with it but once Vl ; Simla — several stations, 57-6000', 

 Bliss 1890-91 and 92. 



N.-W. P. : B. B. Bist.— Mussooree, King, in Herb. Hort. Sahar. ; B. Garh. 4-5000', 

 Duthie 1885 ; Kumaun— Naini Tal, Hope 1861 ; Goriganga Yy. 6500', MacLeod 

 1893, pinnae very narrow: " grows almost in beds of streams, in denBe shade." 



Distrib. — Ada : N. Ind. (Him.), Nepal, Wallich 1821 ; Sikkim and Bhotan, 

 5-8000': " plentiful about Darjeeling" ; Assam— Khasia 5000', Hook. fil. et T. Thom- 

 son. Java : fide Clarke. China— Yunnan, Mengtze 6000', Henry. 



