THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 99 



Distrib.— Asia : N. Ind., Assam Griffith ; Khasia 3-5000', common, Clarke, 

 S. Ind. — very common on west Bide, afc highest elevations, Beddome. Ceylon. Sumatra 

 and Java. Japan. China. Korea. Afr.i Macaronesia ; Guinea Coast ; Fernando 

 Po, and Kamerun Mts., G. Mann. Abyssinia. Cape Colony. Comoro Islands. 



2. G. Levingii, Baker, ia Aanal. Bot., Vol. V., No. XVIIL, 216. G. 

 mirita y var. Levingd, C. R. 568. Leptogramme aurita, var. Levingii, Clarke, 

 Bedd. H. B. 379 ; Leptogramme Levingii, Bedd. Suppt. H. B. 99.— Plate 

 XXXV. 



The following is Mr. Baker's description of the Plant : — 



" Rhizome slender, wide-creeping ; pales lanceolate, membranaceous. Stipe 

 slender, naked 6 — 8 in. long, stramineous, with a brown base. Frond lanceo- 

 late, or oblong-lanceolate, bipinnate, membranous, pubescent, 1' — 1} ft. long, 

 3 — 4 in. br. at the middle, narrowed to the base. Pinna, lanceolate, sessile, 

 ^ — | in. broad, cut down to the rhachis into continuous erecto-patent, linear- 

 oblong pinnules. Veinlets erecto-patent : upper simple, lower forked. Sori 

 oblong or globose, placed nearer the margin than the midrib. West Himalayas ; 

 Jhelum Valley, alt. 4000' ; Levinge. I follow Mr. C. W. Hope in treating 

 this as a species." 



Mr. Clarke, in giving this fern as a variety of 6. aurita, Hook., said — " It has 

 the texture and hairiness of G. Totta, but the rhizome and venation of G. 

 aurita ; while the cutting is deeper than that of G. Totta, less auriculate than 

 that of G. aurita." 



I will not attempt to check the various descriptions of the plant, for it 

 might end in writing another, and there are already enough ; but I figure it, 



as that has not yet been done. 



Kashmir : Palgam 8000', C. B. Clarke. Gilgit But.— Dashkin 7500', Dr. Giles ; 

 Jhelum and Chitapani Vys. 4-7000', Levinge 1875, Gulmarg 75-8000', Sind Vy. 7000', 

 Trotter; Pir Punjal— Hirpur 7000', Sind Vy., Gund, 6000', Gammie ; Farikand 

 Nala 6-7000', MacLeod—'* on the edge of the stream, not under shade. Does not 

 grow away from water." 



Punjab : Haz&ra Z>^.— Kagan Vy., Inayat (Sahar. Herb, collr.) 1899 ; Chamba— 

 above Alw&s, and Sach Vy. 8000', McDonell ; " Chamba," J. Marten 1898, Pangi 8500', 

 Harsukh (Sarhar. Herb, collr.) 1899 ; Kullu, Trotter in List ; Simla Bist.— eastward 

 from Simla a ridge, near Theog 8000', Kamalhori and Hattu Mts. 85-9400', Hope, 

 Blanford, Bliss, Dr. Watt. Knnawar, T. T. 1847. 



N.-W. P. : B. B. Bist.— Jaunsar (or T. Garth.") : Collected on march from Mussooree 

 to Chakrata, Mrs. J. Sladen, 1880; T. Garh.—Kag Tiba Mt., Mackinnons 1879; 

 Ganges Vy., below Harsil and Derali 8-9000', Duthie 1881 ; Mandraoli 10—11000', 

 Duthie 1883 ; Knmaun— between Gini and Munshiari 7-8000', Dhauli Vy. 9-10000', 

 Duthie "Kumarm," J. R. Reid 1886. 



This fern varies a good deal in shape and cutting of frond. I had a frond 

 10 in. 1., but only 2£ in. br., and another (Hattu Mt., Bliss) which is 1&£ in. 

 1. by 7 1 in. br. The greatest width Baker gives is 4 inches, and Beddome— 



