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Kasumik : Jacquem. ; Hook. fil. et Thorns. 1848; Gilgit Dht.-^OOQ', Tanner, 

 1880; Asfor Dist.-S-'3i 00\ Dnthie ; Sind andJhelum Vys., Aitch., 1873 CO J -"lelam 

 and Kishengan.iza Vys. 5i:00' and upward*, very common, Trotter, MacLeod ; 'J akht-i- 

 Suliman 6000', Lev., Trotter, J^acLeod; Gund 7600', Gaii.mie; Ladrawan in 

 Lolab, MacLeod ; Rarwan 5000', Mc Done; 1 ; Kiiht war— 3500', Chirk-, 1876 



Punjab : Hazc'^ra-KagAn Valley, oOOO', Trotter, 1891; Malkandi, 4^00', Duthio's 

 collector 1897; Black Mt. 5000', Oertel, 1891. a«wZ^a— Upper Cheuab Vy. 8000', 

 Baden-Powell, 1879 (perhaps in Kashmir) ; Kavi Valley, 7000', common, McDonell, 

 1881 ; AmZZm— Sarbali Valley, Edge- ? 



N.-W. P. : T. Gar It. —Gtxnges Valley : Jangla 8-9000', Dnthie, 1883. 



DiSTEiB.— ^mjt;^;'' : in many parts of Germany, in Switzerland, the Tyrol, Hungary, 

 Dalwatia, the Caucasus, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Greece. It is abst-nt from 

 Scandinavia, Northern Russia, Bohemia, and Austria"" CBritten,, in European Ferns). 

 Lago di Garda, Austria, Leoinge. In Britain, in all or nearly all the southern^ 

 northern, and western counties ; " in Somersetshire and Devonshire it is especially 

 abundant ; iu Scotland it is mnch less frtquent"— chieflj in the West and South- 

 West ; frequent in Irelaua, though local iBrittoi), Ada ; Palestine, Ptrsia. Afr. : 

 Canaries, Madeira and Cape Verd Islands ; Morocco, Algiers, Abyssinia, Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



Genus 21. Actinioptekjs, Link. 



1. A. radiata, Link, (for thefc}'pe — Acrostichvm dichotomvm, Foishk., is 

 the oldest name). Syn. Fil. 246. A. dicMmna, Bedd., 0. R. 505. A. airJw- 

 toma, Forshk. (under AGrosiuImm), Bedd. H. B. 197. 



Afghan. : Kabul— fide Clarke in " Review." 



Punjab: Delhi Z)i«#.— "Dry rocky places at Delhi and along the Jumna", 

 Trotter in ''Lisf''; Gurgaon Dut. — Outliers of Aravalli Mts. ; '' abundant on north 

 side of Khol Mt., between Karnal and Eewari, J. R. Drummond. 



N.-W. P. : Saharanjnir Dist. — Saharanpur, Dr. .Jameson On Herb. Hort., Sahar.), 



Duthie, 1881. 



Af/ra Dist.: City of Agra — " Plentifully on old walls, gth June 1825"" 

 Cticket in Wallich's writing?) : on another ticket — " 197. Afpleuium radia- 

 <w?n— Agra, super mures, 1825." in Herb. Bort. Ke<v; "Walls of City of Agra, 

 8th June 1835", Walllcb ?, in Herb. Hort. Calc. ; Jharna near Agra, Sahar. collectors 

 June 18 12 ; Mm-adahad Dist.— fide Clarke in '' Review "; Jhansi Dixt. — Dnthie, 1886. 



DiSTRiB. Asia : Mount Sinai, Arabia, Persia. — Cent. Ind. — Bagelkhand, //oj»p, 



1860 • Cent. Prov., Ind. — Khandwa Dist., A. E. Lourie, vary large ; Eajputana — Tara- 

 garh Hill, Mt. Abu S700', AT/m^/, Feains. of Ind., in dry rocky places below 3000 ft. 

 elevation (^Beddome in H B.); Maisur 10" long. Ceylon. Afr.: Angola, Upper 

 Ecrypt Abyssinia, Socotra, Zambesiland, Macalisberg, Mascaren Isles. 



.4. aiistralis, Link, seems to me a different species, but it is nob found in 

 British India, unless specimens in Gamble's collection, " from the outer hills of 

 East Nepal, 1880," got by his native collector, be it Specimens or the type, in 

 Gamble's collection, from the Madras Presidency, show that the rhizome is 

 sometimes procumbent, but with stipes very approximate : scales at base of stipe 

 dark-brown, linear : scales sparsely clothing the stipe, paler, and hair-like. 



