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THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA, 



Including Afghanistan, the Teans-Indus Pbotected States and Ka?hmie 

 arranged and named on the basis of Hooker and Baker ^s Synopsis Filscum, and other 

 works, with New Species added. 



By C. W. Hope. 

 (^Coniinued from Volume XIII, page 671.) 

 Part III.— THE GENERAL LIST— (continued). 



20. A. macrocarpum, Blume ; Syn. Fil. 227 and 489 ; C. R. 488. 

 Athynum macrocarpum Bl, Bedd. H. B. 165. 



Punjab: — C/i^wSa : Chatri Forest 7000', McDonelL; 5-9000', J. Marten; Simla 

 jteg. "Syree"'' Edgew ; Simla 56-7000', seven stations, Gamble, Bliss, Blanf., Trot- 

 ter ; Bhajji State, Bliss. 



N.-VV. P. : D D. Dist. — Sowarna Nala 4-5000', Mackinnone ; Brit. Oarh — above 

 Guinji 9000', Duthie (once); Kumaxm — Binsar and Pindar 7-7500', Strachey ; near 

 Naini Tal, Hope 1861 ; Gori Valley 7-8000', Duthie 1884 j Dhankuri Pass, Trotter 

 1891 ; Shama 8000', Gori Ganga Valley 8,000'— ll,OuO', Eachpula Pass, 6750' 

 MacLeod 1893. 



DiSTElB. — Asia : N Ind. (Him.). — Sikkim and Ehotan 2-9000', very common » 

 Assam — Khassi Hills 2-6000', very common. S. Ind. — " very common on the W. 

 Mts. above 3000'" (Beddtme'). Ceylon, Burma, Malay Penins, and Isles. N. China — 

 Shantung £>r. Maingay. Japan. 



Beddi >me and Clarke do nob mention this species as being found to the 

 westward of Garhwal. Some of the Simla and Kumaun specimens have been 

 ticketed var. Aikinsmi, Clarke, and being small and sharply cut look distinct ; 

 but there are intermediate forms of all sizes and textures. MacLeod's specimens 

 from the Rachpula Pass, Kumaun, are large, tripinnate, stiff, with very little 

 lamina in the frond : possibly they are A.folmum, Wall. (No. 32, mjra)^ with 

 aori larger than usual. Blanford says of the type, at Simla — " very rare, I have 

 never met with it myself. But it was collected last year by a Simla resident a 

 little below the "Simla "bazar, I believe, about 7000', or rather lower." And of 

 var. AtUnsoni he says — " also very rare. I have found it only at the Chad- 

 wick Falls at 5820 ft., and not at all during the last two or three years." In 

 1886 Mr. Bliss gave me a specimen collected by himself in Simla : this habitat 

 was new to Mr. Blanford. Mr. Bliss's diligence since then has proved that A. 

 macrocarpum is to be found in several places all over Simla. Much of the 

 N.-W. Indian material is veiy simply cut and membranous, and looks very 

 different from the stiffer and more compound N.-E, Indian plant ; but the sori 

 are always much the same. Clarke's variety l-jsmnato, from Assam, I ehould 

 make a tx^parate speidiee. 



