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THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN TNDIA, 



Including Afghanistan, the Trans-Ixdus Protected States, and Kashmir: 

 arranged and name I on the basis of Hooker and Baker's Synopsis Filicum, 

 and other works, with New Species added. 



By C. W. Hope. 

 (^Continued from page 538). 

 Part III. 

 NEW SPECIES. 

 11, Nephr odium Kingii, n. sp. — Plants isolated ? ; caud. erect? ; st. 

 short' — about quarter the length of the frond, clothed with dark brown aourci- 

 nate hair-pointed scales, trancated at base ; /r. small — 6 — 10 inches 1, 2 — 3 

 inches br., lanueolate-acummate, rhachises clothed with scales similar to those 

 on stipes, bat smaller ; pinn. up to about 18 pairs, subdeltoid, but with the 

 inferior of the lowest pair generally rather the shorter, almost sessile, and de- 

 cumbent on the main rhachis, gradually narrowing to a not acuminate apex, 

 cut down to a broadly winged rhachis into upwards of 10 distinct rectangular 

 bluntly-rounded segments, which are toothed round the apex and lobed on 

 both sides — the lobes more or less toothed according to size of plant ; texture 

 herbaceous ; ven. pinnate in the segments, veinlets in triplets in the lobes 

 and running into the teeth ; sori small, subcostal, one to each lobe on the 

 lower veinlet ; invol, entire or irregularly lacerate, not fimbriate, persistent. 

 (Plate IX.) 



Panjab : Ghamha—.—Vi3.vi Valley, below Salrundi 95-10,000', McDonell 1882 ; 

 Chenab Valley— Cheni Pass (Pangi side 10,000', McDonell : in Herb.-Hort. Calc. 

 Simla Reg.— %hovQ Simla, Colonel Bates. N.-W.P.: T. C^arA.— moraine of Dudu 

 Glacier under Srikanta 14-15,000', Duthie 1883, Nos. 386 and 394. 



DiSTRiB.— J.«»a : N. E, Ind. (Him.) Sikkim, Lachen 11-12,000', Hooler K. 1849 ; 

 Sundukphoo 92,000', Levinge 1880 ; Jongri 13,000', Gammie 1892, No. 187 ; Thibet— 

 Dungboo, and Do-tho, King's Collector 1877, No. 4693. 



This elegant little plant was, if 1 remember rightly, put up by Mr. 

 McDonell among specimens which he' sent me of my next species— jV. serrato- 

 dentatwn ; and specimens sent by him to Gamble were named by Levinge 

 N. Filix-mas, near odontoloma (meaning, I believe, N. serrato-dentatvm). The 

 segments are not nearly so much incised as those of the last mentioned plant- — 

 merely shortly toothed ; the stipes are shorter and not so ihick, though stiffer ; 

 and the rhachises arc; inconspicuous below, contrasting with the dark-coloured 

 secondary rhachises of N. serrato-dentatum. The pinnse are blunter, and are 

 never nearly bipinnate ; and the venation is not so distinct. 



The serial numbers prefixed to the New Species showthar place under each 

 genus in the Geueral List (Part III), where the names only will be repeated. 



