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having very dark-coloured scales which exteud some inches up the stipe ; but 

 the rhaohis and costa arc not setnlose, and there are other material differences. 

 Tliese five N.-W. Indian specimens agi'ee generally with the hulk of material 

 iu herbaria which is named A. nigripes, but which seems to me not to belong 

 to Blume's plant ; and I leave them here only to keep a plact^ ope n for the 

 species v/hich has yet to be described and named. 1 cannot find a place for 

 them under any other named species. They are — 



1. Punjab : Hasdra 2?^s^— Chaiaglagali 7500', Trotter No. 547, 1890. 



2. Kashmir : Gulmarg 75-8000', Trotter 1888. 



3. & 4. Punjab: CAam&a, McDonell? Simla Region — ridge east from Simla. 



8300', Hope 1886. 

 5. N.-W. P : £■'«'««»«»— Gori Gauga Valley— Biigdiar 10500', MacLeod 1898. • 



22. A. tenellum, n. sp. Allantodia temlla, Wall, in Herb. 1821, 

 under Asplemum tmi/ijmis, Wall. Cat. No. 206. Plate IV. (See Part II., 

 p. 529.) 



23. A. tenuifrons, Wall. Oat, 206. A. tenuifrom, Wall, Blanford in 

 Journ. Asiat, Soc, Bengal, 1888. A. Filix femina, Bernh., Syn. Fil. 227. 

 A. Claiicei, W. S. Atkmson, MS., CI. Rev. 489. A. yiigripes, Mett., var. 



3 Glarkei^ Bedd., Bedd. H. B. 166. A. nigripes, Mett., var. tenuifrons^ 

 Wall., Bedd. Suppt. H. B. 33. Plate XXI I. 



The following is Beddome's description of this fern, given in the Supplement 

 to his Handbook. Except in two particulars — " veiy like the type '', and — 

 " not rooting at the apex ' ' — it appUes to the plants I call A. teiinijrons, which 

 are the same as Wallich's tpye specimens in the Liimean Society's Herba- 

 rium : — 



" Very like the type " {A. nigripes) " but fronds gradually attenuated 



towards the base, intermediate between the type and CJarkei, not 



nearly so narrow or elongated as the latter, and not rooting at 



the apex ; the channelled secondary rhachis, the channelled midrib 



of the pinnfB " (pinnules ?), '* and sometimes the veins furnished 



with weak setcc on the upper surface, as in the type and in Clarkei 



(which distinguishes this species easily from some of the varieties 



of Fdix-femina). Referred in the synopsis to Filix-femina, and 



by Clarke as a synonym of OlarJcei. Considered as a species by 



some pteridologists." 



Panjab : 6'Aam&a.— Kalatop Forest 6000', McDonell ; EuUu 6-7000', Trotter ; 



Simla Fegim— Simla, 7000', Hope 1871 aud 1886, at the saite station; Gamble 



6000', 1878 ; o5-Gu0U', Blanford 1886 ; Trotter 1887 ; Bliss 18'..0-93. 



N.-W. P. : D, D. Z</6-!'.— Jaunsar 5-SOOO, 1894 ; T. Garh^ 7000', Mackinnons 187&; 

 7500', Gamble 1893 ; Kumaun^ Davidson 1876; 4-7000', MacLeod 1893. 



