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1. rarely longer, 3— G in. br. ; pinn. 10—18 paii-s (according to size of frond) 

 besides the acuminate apex, well apart, stalked, ovate-acuminate, 1| — 3 in. l, 



J 1 in, br., sometimes broadest at base, generally like the frond m miniature • 



secondary rhachis flat above, keeled below, becoming winged above the lowest 

 few pairs of pinnules ; pinnl. 6 — 12 pairs below the acuminate apex of 

 the pinna, oblong and blunt to falcate, unequal-sided, lower side cut away, 

 divided more or less deeply into 4—6 pairs of blunt toothed lobes or segments • 

 upper surface furnished with long weak setm springing from the sides of the 

 secondary rhachis and the costa of the pinnule, and in large fronds also from the 

 veins ; texture herbaceous ; ven. pinnate in the pimiules, and forking in the 

 ultimate segments ; sori in a double ro\v close to the costa along the vein and 

 the superior veinlet of each lobe, sometimes one, or a pair, away from the costa 

 in the anterior lowest segment ; invol. persistent, opening towards the costa or 

 the main vein of the enbrged lowest segment. (Plate lY.) 



HA.B. :— Kash. : Kishtioar, T. T. 14-1148. Punjab :—SimlaB eg. —Simla. 6-7000', 

 Blanf 1883 Blis3l891. N.-W. P.: Z). 1>. Disf.— Sowarna Ndia 4500', Mackinnons 

 1878-79 P. W. Mackinnon and Hope 1881 ; Kumami— J ngesav and Phurki 6000', 

 S. and W. 1848 ; near Naini Tal 5500', Hope 1861 ; Kalam Valley 7-8000', Duthie 

 No. 3C21, 21-8-84 ; Khuti to Dwali 70-7500', Trotter No. 817, 1891 ; Gori Valley 

 above Bugdiar 9000', MacLeod 1893. 



BlST-Rl-B.—Asia : N. Tnd. (Him.) W. NEPAL : Nampa Gadh 12-13,000', J. R. Eeid 

 1886, com. Dnthie No. 6244 : very long. Nepal, Wallioh, Buthie. 



A small and elegant plant, found on wet rocks, or by the side of small 

 streams in forests on the Hunalaya. Intermediate between A. niriripes and 

 A. tmuifrons, Wall. Distmguishable from the foimer by the shorter stipes, more 

 delicate habit and more elegant cutting, and distinguishable from A. temifrons 

 by the smaller size of the plant, slender stipes, generally more attenuate pinnaB, 

 and by not being proliferous towards the apex of the fronds. 



A. tenellum Wall., is given in Hooker and Baker's Synopsis Filkum as 

 merely a form of A. FiHx-fcpjnina, Bernh., " with the midiib of the pinnte 

 and pinnules beset with firm yellow spines or strigiU^ ;" but m the living 

 state the two plants are altogether unlike. In the WalUchian collection m 

 the Herbarium of the Linnean Society, there is only one frond ticketed by 

 Wallioh, Allantodia tmrlla. Wall., " Legi in Napalia 1821" : it is long and 

 j^j^n-ow— 11^ in. 1., 4 hi, br., with sori very costal, like the Sikldm high- 

 level plant which Mr. Clarke called iw: alpina of A. m'gripes, and the Khasi 

 Hill specimens alluded to in this paper under A. nt gripes : the pinmu are distant 

 and very uaiTow— about ^m. br. only, and just enough of the upper surface 

 is visible to show that it is setulosc. In tbe British Musemn Herbarium 

 there are two sheets marked " AUmtodia iendla. Wall, in Herb. 131 " (possibly 



