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IS. Nephrodium serrato-dentatum, n. ^^.— Plants isolated ; caud, 

 crecfc ; St. in a dense tuft which attams IJ m. diam. ; " Stipes 6 in., soft, thick, 

 chesnut, coloiu'ed, with scattered, deciduous, lax, lanceolate, black pales ; frond 

 10 by 6 — 8 in., oblong-lanceolate, tnmcate at the base ; pinn^ often widened at 

 the base — 2-pinnate ; secondary pmn[e elliptic, oblong, obtuse, piimatifid (some- 

 times deeply) ; segments rounded, sharply serrate ; textm'e thin, becoming 

 hyaline towards the margin ; venation sub-flabellate ; involucre fimbriate." 

 Lastrea Filix-mas var. /x, odonioloma, Moore, Bedd. F. B. I., Suppt, t. 

 373. ; Nephrodium Filix-mas, var. odontoloma CBedd.), Syn. Fil, (2nd 

 Ed.), 498 ; iV. odontoloma. Hook, and Baker, C. R. 521. Lastrea odontoloma 

 (Moore), Bedd. H. B. 248. Lastrea Filix-mas, var. serrato-dentata, Bedd. 

 Suppt. H. B. 55. (Plate X.) 



Kashmir : Liddar FaZ/ey.— Chatponsal Nala 12-13,000', Duthie 1893, No. 13221 ; 

 Sind FaZZe2/,nearBaItal, 10-11,000', Duthie 1892, No. 11613 (probably so). 



Punjab : Chamba—Rawi Valley— Salrundi 11,000', and Chenab Valley—Cheni 

 Pass, McDoaell 1882. 



N,-W. P. : T. Garh.—Gangotn 12-13,000', Duthie 1881 ; Damdar Valley 11-12,000', 

 moraine of Dudu Glacier, under Srikanta Mt. 14-15,000'; Gam bar Pass 11-12,000', 

 Duthie 1883. B. GarJi., above Bhawani 13-14,000', Duthie 1885. ZMw^aww— Pinsara 

 Pass 10,000', Davidson 1875 ; Ealam Valley 11-13,000', Duthie 1884 ; By^ns— 

 Piilang Gadh 11,000', Duthie 1886. 



DiSTEiB.-- -^sia : N. E. Ind. (Him.).— Sikkim and Bhotan 11-16,000', " common" 

 {Clarke in i2e«.)— China — Hopeh Prov., Dr. Henry 1889. 



The quoted part of the description given above is Mr. Clarke's, represent- 

 ing, as he says, the fairly developed average, though he had examples much 

 larger. The plate in Beddome's Suppt. to F. B. I., t. 373, was, Mr. Clarke 

 says, di'awn from a high-level scrap, and the description in the Si/nopsis^ 2nd 

 Ed. p. 498; seems to have been written from that scrap, which is even more 

 unlike TV. F.-mas. than are the fairly developed fronds which Mr. Clarke 

 afterwards (?) contributed to the Kew Herbarium, some of wliich run to 

 fully 13 inches in length ; 6 — 7 inches is, however, the greatest breadth I see 

 there. I have incomplete fronds coljeoted by Dr. T. Thomson in Sikkim (?) 

 which measure 16 — 17 in. 1., but they are not more than 6 — 7 in. br. These 

 and some smaller fronds were named by Dr. Thomson (?) Nfphrcdivm Bnmonia- 

 num var., but are unlike that species. I would modify Mr. Clarke's descrip- 

 tion by saying that the pales are dark to pale chestnut ; that the segments are 

 not serrate— only toothed so as to enclose the veinlets ; that the venation is 

 very distinct ; that the son are one to each of several of the lower lobes of the 

 segments or pinnules, placed near the costa. Also that the seconf^aiy pinnas 

 are never stalked, but have a broad base getting narrower near the maii. rhachis. 

 The upper half or more of each pinnae is only bipinnatifid. Many small, 



