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oaudex ; 1^ — 5fb. L, 4i — 14in. br,, the auricled short pinnai occupying the lower 

 4 — 20in. ;i}inn. 15 — 40 and more pairs (inclndiDg those auricled) according to 

 size of frond, naiTow, rarely more than |in. broad, not much diminished in 

 lower half, above gradually narrowing and ending in a very acuminate apex ; 

 cut doTvn I to nearly I way towards the rhachis, increasingly distant and 

 becoming more opposite towards the base of the lanceolate portion of the 

 frond where they suddenly shorten, become almost exactly opposite and de- 

 flexed, and throw out auricles upwards, which lengthen as the pinnse shorten 

 and become pinoatifid lower down, with separate costas ; serim. of pinnse 

 curving upwards, broadly falcate, subentire, connected at the sinus by a 

 hyaline web which extends towards the rhacliis of the pinna over one or 

 even two inter-venal spaces ; texture papyraceous ; siirlaces practically glabrous : 

 rhachises sometimes slightly villose or pubescent above, and occasionally 

 with a few white hairs or seta? on the veins above ; ven. shnply 

 pinnate — veins 7 — 8 pairs to a segment, H — 3 pairs muting with those 

 of contmuous segments : an excuiTent veinlet from the lowest pair free or 

 sometimes joming only one of the next upper pair, and occasionally also another 

 one or two before it reaches the smus ; veins of the amides branching in the 

 shallow lobes, and uniting with those of the contif>,uous lobes when the 

 auricles are more deeply pinnatifid ; sm. small, medial on the veins, absent from 

 the apices; invol. fugacious or shrivellii\g on top of the ripe soras. (Plate XII). — 



N. mo//e, Desv., var. major ^ Bedd. Suppt. H. B. 7(5, in part. 



Puj^JAB : Chainba, McDonell (in list of Ohamba Feras identified at Kew, named 

 N. atiboinense') S'nla Re^.— Simla,, 5th Waterfall, Collett 1883, Samala Nala 4500 

 Blauf. 1884: (under iV pennlgeriim. Hook. var. midtillnmta. Wall.: it " occurs, together 

 with N. moUc, at the lowest levels visited below Simla (4500'), and I have it also from 

 Mixssooree, collected by Mr. C. W. Hope, and from below Chakrata ;"" Simla — between 

 2nd Waterfall and Boileauginj, Bliss 1890. 



N.-W. P. : D, D. Dist — In the Dun, near Malsi, and in the Song Valley near its exit 

 from the Himalaya 26-2800', Hope 1887-89 ; Mussooree— Duthie 1887, below Khiarkuii 

 4700,' Hope 1880, Colonel Herschell 187 8 or 1879, Mossy Falls. 5600, Hope (with 

 Duthie) 1882, below Arnigadh 5000', Duthie 1882; T. <?flrA.— Surkunda Mt. 9300 

 Lev. 1872 ; north of Mussooree 30^ 0', Mackinnons 1879; near Bhatauli 4500', Hope 

 1886; Thadiar 3500', Gamble 1894. X"?nfl?iM— S. and W. No. 2 ; Gola Valley : seen 

 in 1890 in cultivation at " Douglas Dale'" 4500,' brought from neighbour- 

 hood. 



DiSTEiB.— 4s«fl : N. Ind. ( Him. )— Nepal, Wallich, 1829. Sikkim — Poobsering 

 below Darjeeliiig 4000', Lev. 1880. Ceylon, Thwaites C. P 2498 (named K. Hoolierf) 

 and Ambuwala (or Ambawella), G. Wall. " Indian Archipelago," Seemann^ 

 " B. Brown, iter Austral. ISOO-B." 



I long ago named this species N. papyracmm, but that name has since 

 been given by Colonel Beddome, in his Supplement of 1892, to a 



