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THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 



Including Afghanistan, the Trans-Indus Protected States, and Kash- 

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

 other works, with New Species added. 



By C. W. Wopb. 



{Continued from page 111 of this Volume.) 

 After- Words. 

 I regret that the publication of this paper has extended over a much 

 longer period than I anticipated ; but I now recognise that this is due 

 to the method of publication I was constrained to adopt, and somewhat, 

 perhaps, owing to miscalculation on my part. The Journal of the 

 Bombay Natural History Society has to deal with various branches of 

 Natural History beside Botany, and the tastes of the members tend to 

 the study of Zoology rather than to that of Botany. And I must admit 

 that Ferns do not present the economic interest that some other 

 branches of Botany do. 



2. Parts II and III— "New Species," and "The General List," 

 were written in India before 1896 ; but they have been revised from 

 time to time, as further material turned up, and as views came to be modi- 

 fied. Part I, Introductory, was written before the rest of the paper was 

 sent to press, and a glance at it may now be taken to see how the 

 scheme has been realised. 



3. Mr. Duthie, the late Director of the Botanical Department, 

 Northern India, continued to send me duplicates of specimens got by 

 himself or his native collectors, and also of many contributed to the 

 Saharanpur Herbarium by Mr. James Marten, of the Indian Forest 

 Survey Department, collected by himself in the Chamba State, chiefly 

 at high altitudes. Mr. Marten is a very careful collector, and his 

 specimens are beautifully preserved. They include several rarities. 

 Mr. Gamble also has given me many specimens collected by himself 

 in the Jaunsar tract of the Himalaya, and by Mrs. Fisher in British 

 Garhwal, from which latter-named district also, from low altitudes, 

 several interesting species were brought by Inayat, one of the Saharan- 

 pur collectors, in 1902, including Nephrodium calcaratum, Hook., and 

 Acrostichum crispatulum, Wall. The first-named of these species had 

 been got in N.-W. India only twice before, more than 30 years ago, 

 and the second only in West Nepal, just outside the boundary with 

 Kumaon. It is the only Acrostichum in North- Western India. 



