.318 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XII. 



&c.," with its Supplement of 1892 ; and I have quoted the name given 

 to each of my species in each of those works ; though in some cases 

 I have found it difiB.cult to identify them. As a rule, no further attempt 

 has been made to give the synonymy of the species : that will be 

 found sufficiently given in the books I refer to ; and as this paper is 

 •" " cnnnlmnent to these, and not a complete treatise, I see no 



reviving some species which, though originally proposeu -aim ^^ 



by competent authorities, have been dropped by recent authors, and 

 in raising so-called varieties to the rank of species, I have 

 adopted the names originally given by the collectors or describers 

 of them. 



The present list admits 212 species : of these 16 are new, including 

 3 which have before been described by other authors as varieties of old 

 species; 45 are new to the regions dealt with, and 6 old species are 

 new to the Indian region. 20 are old species revived, or so-called 

 varieties erected into species. In his *' Review " Mr. Clarke 

 admitted 363 species of ferns, besides many varieties, in Northern 

 India, of which 16 were new. 142 species were, he said, found in 

 the Himalaya we^t of Nepal, including Afghanistan apparently. 



No place is given in this list to so-called varieties, though in a few 

 instances " forms " are noted where there seems to be a divergence 



