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8. The group of Aspidium, hitherto placed as A. {Polyst.) aculea- 

 tum, Sw., and varieties, Nos. 113 to 116 of rny list, cannot stand. 

 There appears, indeed, to be no good ground for maintaining the name 

 A. aculealum any longer ; and it is, in my opinion, inapplicable to any 

 Indian plant. Continental botanists seem to use the specific name 

 "lobatum "instead of " aculealum" \ and " squarrosum," Don, is an older 

 name than " mfo-barbatum" Wall., for the common coriaceous shiny 

 Indian plant. I have used the specific name " angulare" for the softer 

 plants, of several different forms, which at one time I thought of setting 

 up as A. molle n. sp. One of them is very near A. angulare, but 

 generally with different clothing on the stipes and rhachis. The fronds 

 of this form vary from about 1 foot to 3 feet in length, and the width 

 sometimes exceeds 2 feet, with pinnules deeply cut into as many as 

 ten segments. This is what Dr. Christ, in " Filicinse, Warburg, Mon- 

 sunia," calls A. angulare, var. batjanensis ; but in the Dehra Dun 

 and the Mussooree Himalaya plants of all sizes from 1 foot to 5 feet 

 high are to be got, the length and number of segments of the pinnules 

 increasing with the size of the plant. 



9. In no case have I seen any reason to unite with the type any of 

 the so-called varieties of Nephvodium ( Lastrea) Filiv-mas. ; but I 

 have put some of the less divergent forms under JV. parallelogrammum 

 Kunze. Nephrodium odontoloma (Moore), Bedd., {N. F.-mas, var. 

 2 normalis, C. B. Clarke), I now believe, after seeing many more speci- 

 mens from the Punjab and elsewhere, to be the same as 2?. pallidum, 

 Bory, of South-Eastern Europe and Western Asia, of which Mr. Gustav 

 Mann was kind enough to get me authentic specimens. I have always 

 held that this plant is quite distinct from N. rigidum, Desv., Mr. Clarke's 

 No. 18, p. 323 of 'his Review.' N. rigidum, Desv., for which he 

 gives as a synonym IV. pallidum, Bory, seems to be certainly this 

 plant. And nothing has turned up which makes me more inclined to 

 admit any connection of N. marginatum. Wall, (under Aspidum) with 

 N. elongatum, H. and Gr., or any form of A 7 . F.-mas. 



10. Nephrodium prolixum, Baker, which, reviving an old name 

 of Willdenow's, seems to have been designed to iuclude Kunze's two 

 species — N. ochthodes and N. tylorfes (this latter name should be 

 ocylodes, but Kunze himself originated the misprint), I have resolved into 

 its original constituents ; and as I found that the plant of the North- 

 Western Himalaya, which had been called N. ocldhodes, or N. prolkum, 



