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Genus 30. VITTARIA, Sm. 

 Sub-genus T^entopsis, /. Sm. 

 1. V. lineata, Sw. ; Syn. Fil. 396. V. Jiexuosa, Fee, C. R. 574. V. 



lineata, Sw., Bedd. H. B. 407. 



Punjab : Kangra Vy. Dist., Mr. D. Macdougall, fide Trotter in printed List. 



N.-W. P. : D. D. Dist.— Vicary, in Herb. Hort. Sahar. ; T. or B. Garhwal 4-5000' ? 

 P. W. Mackinnon 1881 ; B. Garh. 7-8000', Duthie 1885 ; Kumaun— Sarju Vy. 4800', 

 S. & W., above Gini 6-7000', near Sosa 9-10,000', in forest, on Abies dumosa, Duthie 

 1884 ; near Khati 7500', and above Loharkhet 8-8500', Trotter 1891 ; above Girgaon 

 9500', " common trees, " MacLeod 1893. 



Distrib.— Amer. : W. Indies and Florida to Peru and Brazil ; Brit. Guiana— 

 Roraima. Asia : N. Ind. (Him.), Sikkim and Bhotan : "2-12,000', very common," 

 Clarke ; Assam— Khasia Dist. 1-6000', very common ; Kachar ; Manipur, Watt. S. 

 Ind. — on the Western Mts. 2-6000'. S. Andaman Island, Kurz. Ceylon, C. P., common. 

 Malay Penins. and Islands. Tonkin— Balansa. China— Yunnan, Henry, Hancock ; 

 Fokien Carter. Japan. Philippines. Bjrneo. New Guinea, Afr. : Kameruns. Guinea 

 Coast, Ashanti. Centr. Afr.— Ruenzori, Zambesi Land, Natal, Cape Colony. 

 Mascaren Islands. Sechelles. 



Tribe B. ACROSTICHE^. 



Genus 60. ACROSTICHUM, L. 



Sub-Genus Gymnoptebis, Beriih. 



1. A. (Gym.) virens, Hook. ; Syn. Fil. 420. A crispatulum, Wall. Cat. 

 24, Clarke's Rev., p. 580, PI. lxxxiv, fig. 2, b, d.— " Barren pinnse numer- 

 ous, often 20 or more, 4 by h in., slightly serrate, the midrib often reddish 

 when dry, a series of costal arches, without included veins in any of the 

 areola ; fertile pinnre 4 by | to £ in. 



" Round Bengal from Kumaun to Bhotan and Chittagong in the lower hills, 

 alt. 0-3000', common. 



" The only very common species of the group called A. virens by Mr. Baker. 

 Very constant in character, and easily recognised by the absence of free veins." 



N.-W. P. : Brit. Garh^ up to about 3000'; Bhainskil, near Parewa, Kotah Range,, 

 coll. Inayat Khan (native collr. of Sahar. Herb.) 6-1902 ; Kumaun : R. Bl., 2 sheets 

 in Herb. Hort. Kew. 



This species is the only Acrostichum that has hitherto been found in N.-W. Ind. 



Sub-Ord. III. OSMUNDACE.E. 

 Genus 31. OSMUNDA, L. 

 1. O. Claytoniana, L. ; Syn. Fil. 426 ; C. R. 582 ; Bedd. H. B. 449. 

 Kashmir : Gulmarg 95— 10,000', C. B. Clarke 1875, Levinge 1875, Trotter; 8-900G 

 Duthie ; Sarpat Peak over 10,000' : " grows in regular fields, coming up through the 

 melting snow." MacLeod. 



Punjab : Chamba, 8000' McDonell ; Kullu, 6-11,000' Trotter ; Simla Reg.—B\s&- 

 hir, Chini, Vicary 1831, in Herb. Hort. Sahar. ; Bari 8000' Lace ; Hattu Mt. 10,000', 

 Bates, Blanford, Hope, Bliss ; Sirmur Territory 9-10,000'. 



