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THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA, 



Including Afghanistan, the Tkans-Indus Pbotected States, and Kashmie :. 

 arranged and named on the basis of Hooker and Ba,keT''a ■ Synopsis Filicuvi^ and 

 other works, with New Species added. 



By 0. W. Hope. 



(Continued from page 266 of this Voh/me.) 

 Part HI.— THE GENERAL UST— {continued.) 

 Genus 22. Aspidium, Sw. (in part), B. Br. 



Subgenus Polystichum, Roth. 



1. A. LoncllitiS, Swaa-tz ; Syn. Fil. 250 ; C. E. 505. Polystuhum 

 Lonchitis, Sw., Bedd. H. B. 203. Hook. Brit. F. t. 9. 



Teans-Ind. States : Baraul 10,500-11,000', Harriss 1895. 



Kashmie : Jacquem, and S, & W. (in Herb. Brit. Mus.) : Gulmarg and Bonamarg 

 9-11,000', Dr. J. L. Stewart, Levinge, Trotter ; elsewhere— Gilgit, and W. & S. 

 Kashmir 8-12,000', Duthie, McDonell, MacLeod. 



DiSTEiB. — N. Amer. Greenland — Disko Bay ; Brit. Columbia — Cascade Mts. 

 5-6000' ; United States— southern shore of Lake Superior |and northwards (Britten). 

 Europe — North to Centr., more sparingly in S. Europe ; Brit. Isles — N. and Centr, 

 Scotland ; Darham, Westmoreland, and Yorkshire ; Carnarvonshire ; W. and N.-W. 

 Ireland, very local. Asia : Asia Minor, Siberia, Turkestan, 



Mr. Clarke says :— " The single Himalayan specimen at Kew (Jacquemont's) 

 has been marked A. Lomhitis by Moore ; but others have marked it A. aiiri- 

 cuMum. H. C. Leviage's example is typical A. LoncMtis.'" The additional 

 localities in Kashmir, summarised above — ten or twelve in number — show that 

 the plant is not uncommon in the westeru and southern parts of that State. 

 The dimensions given m the Synopsis, namely, fr. 12—18 iq. I, 1—2 in. br., 

 are exceeded in Kashmir : I have a frond from MacLeod, with narrow pinn^, 

 which measm-es 15 in. by 3 in., aud another 18 in, by 2 in. ; but there is a 

 frond in his collection 28 in. in length, the breadth of which I omitted to note. 

 The pinnas are lobed : each vein after leavmg the costa branches ; and in well- 

 developed fronds each group of veinlets occupies a shallow lobe, the apex of 

 which is a mucronate tooth on the longest veinlet ; and there are smaller teeth 

 at the points of the other veinlets. 



2. A. lachenense, Hook. ; Syn. Fil. 250 ; C. R, 506. Polystichum 

 lachenmse, Hook., Bedd. H. B. 203, F. B. I., t. 32. 



Kashmie : Palgram 13,000', C, B. Clarke, No. 31051, 4.9-^76 ; Gilffit Dist.— Got 

 15,000', Tanner 1880 ; Liddar Fy.— above Kainmal 12,000', Duthie No. 13131, Masjid 

 Vy. 12-13,000', Duthie No. 18198, and Sons^ NMa 13-14,000', Duthie No. 14128— 

 all in 1893. 



Punjab : Chamb a. —■'R^vi Valley, Cheni Pass 12,000', McDonell 1892. 



N.-W. P. : T. fi'aj'A.— Damdar Vy. 12-13,000, No.'lOO', and Dudu Glacier Moraine, 

 4-15,000'» Duthie 1883 ; near Jaulea, under Srikanta, 15-16,000', No.j 397, and above 



