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DiSTElB. — Asia : N. Intl. (Him.) Nepal — Wallich ; Sikkim — Jerdon. 



As Beddome say?, this fem is nearer to A. macrocai'pum than to A. fim- 

 'Iriatwm, i.e., as to cutting; but the different rhizome at once separates it 

 from both ; and the smaller, often very minute, sori show that it is not 

 macrocarpum. I separated, as this species, some specimens in Gamble's Her- 

 barium, from Sikkim and Bhotan, named A. macrocarpum and A. fim- 

 briatum — the smaller sori beiag sometimes the chief guide; and some of these, 

 and also McDonell's from Chamba, are hardly bipinnate. One Chamba plant, 

 with fronds only 9 — 10" long, is tripinnatifid only near the base, and I 

 was nearly describing it as a new species. Others, again, of the eastern spe- 

 cimens, are almost quadripinnate. The fern is, I think, never flaccid and 

 membranous as some forms of A. macrocarpum are. The stipes and rhachises 

 are wiry, though slender. The cutting is very defined and elegant : the 

 sori copious from base to tip. 



As to dimensions : my specimen from Tehri Garhwal^ given me by the 

 Messrs. Mackinnon, is a portion — the 3|- lowest pair of pinn», I think — of a 

 very large frond ; the width is about 20^ inches, and the second lowest pair 

 of pinnge 10 inches long (each) by 4^ inches broad. The frond must have 

 been 6 feet, including stipe — twice the limit Beddome gives. 

 ' \_A.procerum^y^&\\., Cat. 2203 {A. tmbrosum, Sm., vnr.procerum, Syn. 

 Fil. 4:89), said by Mr. Clarke and Colonel Beddome to be very common in the 

 Himalaya, from Kumaun to Bhotan, has not been got west of Nepal, that 

 I can see.] 



Subgenus Diplazium, Stvartz. 

 • 33. A. longifolium, Don; Syn. Ml. 234; 0. R. 478. 

 ' Diplazium longifoUum, Don ; Bedd. H. B. 179, 



Punjab: CA«fft&«— McDonell, in list of Ferns identified at Eew ; not seen : 

 Simla Berj., Simla and neighbourhood 45-5500', seven or eight stations, EdgeWorth, 

 Bates, Fielding, Gamble, Blanford, Hope, Bliss. 



N.-W. P. : D Z>, i5M!^.—Mussooree, rare, Dnthie 1877, Mactinnons 1878-79. Hope 

 1881; Kumaun— neav Naini Tal, Hope 1861, Major Buckley, 



msT'Rin.—Asia: N. Ind. (Him,) Nepal, WalliGh ; "very restricted in area and 

 nowhere common'' (Clarke in " Eeview ") ; Sikkim— in Herb. Gamlle^ com. Levingc. 

 Manipur 6-7000', Watt. 



This is undoubtedly a Diplazium, as Diplaziums go, and Mr. Clarke has, 

 since the publication of his " Eeview ", in which he placed it under Eims- 

 plenmn, admitted it to be so, in the paper written jointly with Mr. Baker, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, 8th December 1888, in which it is said—" In exemplis, a 

 H^ Blanford co?nmumcatis, >/. G. BaJcer paims soros diplazif dimes invenitit." 

 Mr. Ganible has a specimen from Blandfcrd with two or three diplazoid sori 

 on it ; and I have two or three fronds from Mr. Bliss on which double sori.ai'e 



