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specimen of the last-mentioned fern, from below Haripur, near Simla, at a 

 low level I think, might almost be transferred to N. pandum. 



I give the " distribution " to Sikkim with hesitation, as the stipes of Sir 

 Joseph Hooker's specimens are incomplete, and there are more veins in a 

 segment than the N.-W. Indian specimens have. Of these (?) Mr. Clarke 

 gays — " Sir J. D. Hooker collected at Lachen in Sikkim, alt. 9- J 0,000', a 

 fern which seems a luxuriant form of panda.'' 



18. Nephrodium Blanfordii, n. sp. — Plants isolated ; caud. 

 suberect ; st. in a tuft, generally short, wiry, densely clothed at 1 ase with 

 long narrow bright chestnut scales, and higher up with broadly, ovate, acumi- 

 nate and lanceolate-acummate, particoloured scales, both sorts trancate at 

 base ; fr. 1 — 2 ft. 1., 6" — 12" br., lanceolate, truncate though somewhat 

 narrowed at the base, bipinnate ; main I'hachis clothed with lanceolate-acumi- 

 nate, particoloured scales, mixed with fibrillse : secondary rhachises fibrillose ; 

 pinn. about 25 pairs, distant, but not more so towards base of frond, patent, 

 linear-acuminate, broadest at base, cut down to a narrowly winged rhachis into 

 12 14 pairs of sessile broad-based pinnules set widely apart, having a conflu- 

 ent acuminate toothed apes ; pinnl. oblong, bkmtly rounded, divided more or 

 less deeply into 4 — 6 slightly-toothed lobes ; texture herbaceous ; ven. costa of 

 pinnule undulating and branching mto the lobes ; veins branching into 3 — 4 

 veinlets in the lobes ; sori — one on each lowest superior veinlet of a group, near 

 the costa confined to upper part of the frond. (Plate XI.) Nephrodium 

 {Lastrea) remotum, Blanf. in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LVII, Part II, 



No. 4, 1888. 



Kashmir : Nagmarg and Sonamarg, 85-9000', Trotter 1888. Punjab: Hazara Ditt. 

 —Kagan Valley 94-10,200', Duthie's collector 1896-97; Dunga Gali 7-7500', Trotter 

 1889 • Chamba 6000', J. Marten 1897 ; Simla /?«</.— Ridge east of Simla, Kamalhori 

 Mt 9500' Blanf ord 1885 ; " Common about N^gkanda at elevations between 8300' 

 and 9500'; NAgkanda to Bagi 82-8500', Hope 1886 ; Biealur— Sdeeling 9000' 

 Lace. N.-W. P. : T. ffar A.— Ganges Valley above Jhala 11-12,000', Duthie 1891. 



I give the fern entered in Blanford's List as Nephrodium remotimi as a 

 synonym of N. Blanfordii^ because, having received from him specimens named 

 remotum which are exactly the same as those I coUected m the same locahty, 

 at about the same time, I know that in his paper of 1888 he wrote of the same 

 fern as I now do. But the plant is in no way near N. remotum, Hook, (not of 

 Clarke as Mr. Blanford quotes it), and must therefore be re-named. Mr. Blanf ord, 

 who, when he wrote, had not, I believe, much studied Euiopean ferns, said — 

 " I adopt Mr. Clarke's name for this fern, without implying acquiescence in 

 the view that it is identical with the European prototype." He had 

 previously, under his No. 66, iV^ Filix-mas^ var. marginata^ Wall., said that 



