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N.-W. P. : B. B. Bist.— Landour 7000', Colonel Wilmer (comm. to Mackinnons 1878) ; 

 Seal's Hill, E.of Landour, Hope 1887 and 1895 ; T. Garh.— between Ora and Ram- 

 Sarai, Duthie's collr. 1879 ; between Betwari and Dangulla 5-6000' ; 7-8000', Duthie 

 1881 ; Kidarkanta ; Jodargadh Waterfaff and rocks near Suranu-ka-Ser 6000', Gam- 

 ble 1898 ; B. Garh. 7-8000', Duthie 1885, and Mrs. Fisher ; Kumaun— Sarjn R. and 

 Pass to Mohargiri, S. & W. 1848 ; Naini Tal 7000', on trees, Hope 1861 ; Goriganga 

 Vy. 6-8000', MacLeod 1893. 



Distrib.— Asia : N. Ind. (Him.) Nepal, Wallieh ; Sikkim and Bhotan ; Assam— 

 Khasia 2000-5000', very common, Clarke ; Kohima— Jakhpo Mt. 7500', Clarke ; Mani- 

 pur 7500'. Burma— Moulmein, China— Yunnan, Henry, Yunnan— Mengtez, Han- 

 cocky " very rare. 11 



Perhaps the omission of localities for the type, from Beddome's Handbook, is 

 due to a misprint. None of the specimens I have from N. and W. India are 

 petiolate, and otherwise they seem quite normal. At Naini Tal I used to see 

 this fern growing on trees. At Mussooree (Landour) it grows in dense 

 masses on a steep bank, under scrub forest, the fronds hanging down gracefully. 

 In Kumaun MacLeod found it growing in large overhanging masses on pre- 

 cipitous rooks. I have a frond, Trotter's No. 959, 1891, from near Naini Tal, 



named by him P. jimalai/mse, Hk., which I now think is P. juglandi/olium 

 var. biserialis of Clarke, which was got in Kumaun long ago, vide a specimen in 

 the Kew Herbarium. The form B. P. tenuicauda, Hk., does not appear to have 

 been got in N.-W. India. 



S6. P. Lehmanni, Mett. ; Syn. Fil. 369 ; C. R. 566. Pleopeltis, 



Bedd. H. B., 370. 



N.-W. P. : B. GarJiiodl— near Ramri 12,000', on rocks in forest, Duthie No. .5177, 

 1885 ; loc. ? P. W. Mackinnon ; Mrs. Fisher. 



Distrib. — Asia : N. Ind. (,Him.) Nepal, Wallieh ; Sikkim 4-8000', common, 

 Clarke. Burma. China — Yunnan, Belaoay, Henry. 



Duthie's plant from British Garhwal is a remarkable sport. The 

 specimen he gave me is one frond, with three inches of rhizome 

 sending out side-shoots. The scales are typical. The stipes is 5| in. 1. — the 

 frond 10 in. I, 8| in. br. : pinna? 5 pairs, sessile, lowest 4| in. 1., and next 

 3 puirs not much shorter : all, and the terminal pinna, have the veins irregu- 

 larly prolonged, so that the lowest pair of pinnae are in places 3 in. br. : the 

 pinnse are very opposite and very acuminate. There is a similar 

 specimen in Kew, also from Dathie. No fertile fronds of this were 

 found by Mr. Duthie. I have lately received from Mr. Gamble two 

 fronds, quite typical, collected in British Garhwal by Mrs. Fisher, with 

 pinna? very opposite and very acuminate. Mr. Mackinnon's specimens want 

 rhizomes ; but I have other grounds for believing this species grows in Garhwal, 

 for fronds of what I could only so name grew up from among a mass of 

 rhizomes of — I forget what other species — which the Mackinnons brought from 

 an inner range of the Himalaya, and had in cultivation at Mussooree, about 1881. 



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