THE FERNS OP NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 629 



i in. wide, margin acutely or crenately lobed ; texture herbaceous ; under 

 surface hairy ; ven. pinnate in segments, fi'ee. tSori naked, medial, orbicidar, 

 terminal on veinlets, usually one, sometimes two or three to each lobe." (Plate 

 XIV.) 



EemarJcs lij Mr. Trotter. 

 " This fern Ls not uncommon in the Western Himalaya, at an elevation of 

 7-9,000'. I have specimens from Kumauu and Garhwal, and have person- 

 ally collected it at mtervals from Simla to Hazara, where it is abimdant, forming 

 extensive patches. It seems to connect Folypodiiim distans, Don, with G 1/771- 

 nogramme aurita^ Hook., combining the frond and sori of the former with 

 the rootstock and stipes of the latter ; and when collected without rhizome it 

 has frequently been mistaken for P. distans^ from which in that mutilated con- 

 dition it is not easily distinguishable. 



'' Its wide-reaching rootstock and scattered stipes, bent round at the base, are 

 such well-marked characters as to entitle it, I thmk, to rank as a good species." 



Kashmie : Chittapani Valley and Rattan Pir, 75-8000', Trotter, 1888 ; Dardpura 

 4-6000', MacLeod 1891. 



Punjab : Hazara iJi*-^— Thandiana and Dungagali 75-8500', Trotter 1890-92 ; 

 Kagan and Siran Valleys 9000', Duthie's collector 1896. 67tfl7«Ja— 5-8000', J. Marten 

 1897. Kangra Valley i)««!f.— Dharmsala 80<.0', Trotter 18^7 ; Simla iie^.— below 

 Simla 5500', and Jako Mt. 7700', Blanf., 1886 ; ridge east of Simla, Maihisu (Mahasu), 

 7500' and spur north-west of IS'agkanda, 8200', Hope 1886 ; Hattu Mt. 9-10,000', 

 Gamble 1878, Collett 1885 ; Bagi 9400', Bliss 1891. 



N.-W. P. : D. D. i)i6-?.— Jaunsar, (or T. Garh. : ticket incomplete). Gamble ; Seal's 

 Hill— East of Landour, 700u', Hope 1887 and 1895 ; T. Garh,— ^ag Tiba Mt. 7500', 

 Mackinnons 1879 ; nearBhatauli 4500', Hope 1886 ; Phedi— East of Landour— 5-6000', 

 Duthie 1881. Kumaun 7000', S. and W. ; Durasu 6000', Davidson 1875; forest 

 above Shankala 9-10,000'; Duthie No. 3712 ; Sarju Valley 3-4000', and Dhanknri 

 9,000', Trotter 1891. 



DisTEiB.— J.s8a : N. Ind. (Him,).— Nepal ; Sikkim (.')• 



The only previously described plant which may possibly be this is Pol //podium 

 paludosum, Bl. Fil, Jav., p. 102, t. 90 ; but Bin 'die's plate shows only the upper 

 part of a frond — 14 pimite, a short tip, and an enlarged pinnule. Blume saj-s — 

 " Frond, 4-5ft. ; caudex," so far as he recollects, " repens, stipites efferens 

 plures remotos." 



Beddome, in his " Ferns of S. India,"' p. 55, t. 168, said of P. ijaludoimi— 

 " Caudex short, erect, covered v^ith scales at apex." He did not give P. distans 

 as a synonym ; but m his Handbook, p. 292, he dropped P. paludoswn as 

 a species, and gave it as a synonym of P. distans, Ton — referimg to his F. S. I. 

 t. 168. For P. distans he wrote a new and elaborate description (Don's being, 

 as usual, short and mcomplete), and said of it — " Stipe tufted." Don did not 



