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THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 



Including Afghaniston, the Tbans-Indus Protected States, and Kashmir : 

 arranged and named on the basis of Hooker and Baker''s Synopsis Filicum^ and 

 other works, with New Species added. 



By C. W. Hope. 



(^Continued from page 127 of this Volume,) 



Part III.— THE GENERAL LIST.— (cojitinued,) 



28. Asplenium SChimperi, A. Br. ; Sya. Fil. p. 489 ; Blanford in 

 Journ. Asiat. Soc, Bengal, Vol. LVII, Part II, No. iv, 1888. A. filix-femina, 

 Bernh,, var. 8 (of C. B. Clarke's vars.), Schimpm (sp.), Mong. ; Fee, Gen. 

 Fijic. (Polypod), p. 187, Clarke et Baker, in Journ. L. Soc, 8-12-1888. 

 Athyrium schimperi, A. Br., Bedd. Suppt. H. B., 36. 



Punjab : ZTazdya— Than didn a 8500', Trotter. 



Kashmir : Basaoli 6000', Clarke No. 31595, 26-9-76 ; Katlan Pir 8000', Trotter. 



Punjab : Chamba—Ka]i6.r 7000', Clarke No. 24038, 1874 ; 7-8500', McDonell ; 

 5-9000' J. Marten, 1897 ; Simla Meg. — T. T. Bates ; Simla and along the ridge 

 eastward 8-10,500', common. 



N.-W. P.: D. D. JDist. — Jausar — Duthie"'s Collector; Mussooree and Landour 

 5-7000' and upwards, very abundant ; T. Gark. 8-9000', Duthie, Kumaun-^ 

 6-11,000', common, 



DISTRIB.— ^S'ia : N. Ind. (Him.) Sikkim— Yakla, T. T. ; Dar jiling 7200', Levinge, 

 Oamlle. Centr. Ind.— Rajputana— Mt. Abu, DutUe No. 6794, 1887. 



The Messrs. Mackinnon were, I believe, the first to hint that this fern was 

 found iq India, for in 1879, on getting the second edition of the " Syno;psis 

 Filicum'\ they thought that, from its widely creepiug rhizome, the fern so 

 common in Mussooree must be A. scUmpm which was therein described, and 

 they named their specimens accordingly. In Mussooree this fern grows in 

 large beds. Some years later I mentioned the Mackinnons' opinion to Mr. 

 Levinge, and I believe he and Mr. Blanford agreed it was correct, and worked it 

 out when they retired from Government service and went home. Hence, prob- 

 ably, the entry of Simla as a habitat, on Blanford's authority, in Clarke and 

 Baker's paper in Journ. L. Soc, 8-12-'88, though why Mr. Baker should have 

 given in and withdrawn the species he admitted in the second edition, " Synopsis 

 Filicum,'' I know not. These authors say, under A. Jilix-femina :— 



" Adde var. 8. Schimperi, sp. Mong. , Fee, Gen. Filic (Polypod.), 



p. 187 ; rhizomate horizontali elongate. 

 "Simla, H. Blanford. 



" Exempla, a H. Blanford communicata, cum Abyssinicis omnino con- 

 gruunt ; H. Blanford autem exempla misit alia quorum rhizoma 

 abbreviatum stipitibus contiguis," 



