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14 inches broad. The stipes are very erect, closely set, and densely scaly for 

 some way up. The pinuas are cut down | or 4/5ths to the rkachis, and the 

 segments are entire, or very slightly crenate at the apex. Don's description in 

 the Prod. Fl. Nepal is : — 



" P. distans, fronde lanceolata — pinnata : primus distantibus suboppositis 

 lanceolatis acuminatis altepinnatifidis pilosiusculis ; segmentes oblongis apice 

 rotundatis ; imis inciso-serratis ; superioribus repandis, stipite rhachique 

 semi-territibus villosis, soris remotis biserialis. 



" Hab. in Nepaliae alpibus, Wallich. Frons bi — v. tripedalis. Ehachis 

 purpurascens." 



There is no allusion to a rhizome in the above. Mr. Duthie once kindly noted 

 down for me the localities and collector's names of the (Indian ?) specimens 

 named P. distans in the Calcutta Herbarium ; and I grouped them in five forms, 

 thus : — (1) Typical form, from Simla, Gamble ; Sikkim, Khasia, and Nilgiris ; 

 (2) var. minor, C. B. Clarke, from Sikkim ; (3) var. glabrata, C. B. Clarice, 

 Kumaun, R. Blinlcworth, without rhizome, named P. Irunneum Wall, on 

 original ticket : margins of segments almost entire ; (4) var. paludosum, from 

 Labaul, Khasia, Nilgiris Gamble, and Ceylon, — rhizome erect, stipes tufted ; and 

 (5) var. adnata (sp.) Wall, from Dharmsala Edgeivorth, Chamba C. B. Clarice, 

 G.irhwal 8000' Blanford, Nepal, Nilgiris Beddome, Ceylon Thwaites. Mr. 

 Duthie noted that there were no type specimens of Don or Wallich, except a 

 doubtful one of each ; and that tne specimen ascribed to Don looked very 

 different from the rest of var. adnata, the margins of the segments being 

 almost entire. 



5. P. late-repens, n. sp,, (Trotter MS.) Hope Plate XIV. (see Vol. XII., 

 p. 628). 



Add.— for Jaunsar hab.— Molta Range G0G0', Duthie 1896 ; B. Garh. 

 Mrs. Fisher : pinnules entire, only toothed at points : no stipes present. 

 Kumaun : Inayat, nat. collr. Sahar. Herbarium, No. 25,088, 8-1890. 



6. P. DryopteriS, L., including P. Robertianum Hoffm.; Syn. Fil. 309; 

 O. R. 545. Pliegopteris Bryopieris, Linu. (under Poly-podium), Bedd. 

 H.B. 293. 



Afghan : Kurram Vy., Aitch. 1879 ; Peiwas Kotal, Collett 1879. 



Trans-Ixd. States : Baraul— Mirga 7500', Gatacre 1895 ; Clutral, J. E. 

 Youngbusband 1891. 



Kashmir ; 7-13,000', frequent ; -Gilgit— Toltion Indus, 5000', Winterbottom 1847, 



Punjab : Hazara Dist.— Kagan Vy., Inayat (Sahar. Herb, collr.) 189G (probably 

 P. Robertianumy, Chamla State 7-8000', McDonell, J. Marten, 1882 to 1899; 

 Kanjra Vy. Dist. 8000', Harsukh (Sabar. Herb, collr.) 1899. 



N.-W. P. : T. Garh wal— Ganges Vy., 8-11,000' Dutbie ; B. <?«?■/<— Dombitia Gadh 

 9000', Duthie ; Kumaun 10-13,000', Duthie, Trotter, MacLeod. 



