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rather obscure : the superior veinlets, which alone are usually soriferous, often 

 appear not to extend beyond the sori, but sometimes reappear near the margin 

 and run out to a small tooth near the sinus where there is a trace of a lobe. 

 In brge pinnse the auricle has a pinnate costa and double tow of sori. A 

 distinguishing character of the plant, though shared with A. marginatum, is 

 its sub-dimorphism. The fertile fronds are generally much shorter than the 

 sterile ones, which is contrary to the general habit of dimorphous ferns. 

 Sometimes this may be only apparent, and be due to the smaller fronds of the 

 previous year being persistent after new sterile fronds have sprung up ; but I 

 have short young sterile fronds also. Occasionally, in large plants at least, 

 young fertile fronds are seen as loog as the sterile ones, which are generally in 

 the majority. Whether the dimorphism be real or only apparent and not 

 invariable, it is a character of the plant. 



7. A. ilicifolium, Don., Prod. Fl. Nep., p. 3 ; "Fronde pinnata-lanceo- 

 lata ; pinnis alternis ovato-oblongis coriaceis rigidis mucronatis nitidis 

 brevissime stipitatis bi-v-tricuapidatis spinulosis subtus lepidotis at latus superiua 

 lobo lata auriculatis, stipite rhachique semi-teretibus squamosis. Hab. in 

 Nepalia, Wallich. 



" Frons sesquipedalis, Pinnee pollicem v. sesquipollicem long^s, semi- 

 nuciam lat^. Sori magni, superiores biseriati, inferiores imordinate 

 associati." 



A. ilicifolium, Don, Syn. Fil. 251 ; CI. Rev. 508. Polystichum ilicifolium, 

 Don, Bedd. H. B. 206. F. B. I. t. 31. 



Punjab : Chamha — Eavi Valley : Sao Nala 8,000', McDonell ; Kangra Vy. 

 Di«i.— Dharms^la 10,000', C. B. Clarke ; AuUu— Outer Seor^j 7,000', Trotter ; 

 Simla Reg. — ridge E. of Simla ; Theog to Baghi 5-10,000', common : Edgew., 

 Bates, Falconer ("N.-W. I.""), Gamble, Collett, Blanford, Hope, Trotter, Bliss, 

 Lace. 



N.-W. P. : D. B. Dis*.— Jaunsar ; Soshol 8,500', 0. G-. Eogers ; Garhival—VS!o?L^ Vy, 

 Jacquem., Nos. 722 and 2253 ; T. Garh.—'Sa.g Tiba Mt., Mackinnons 1878, W. GoUan 

 1881; Kidar Kdnta Mt., 10-11,000', and Bok Mt., Duthie 1878; Jamnotri 9-10,000', 

 Duthie 1883 ; Eikishin 9,000', C. G. Eogers 1891 ; Gangar 7,500', Gamble 1893 ; £rit. 

 Garhwal — Eamri 8-9,000', Duthie 1885 ; Eumaun — E. Blink. CAspidium pungens, 

 Wall, in, Herb. 1823); Madbarl Pass 9,000', S.ifc W. ; Pinsara, Davidson 1875; Kali 

 Vy. 8-9,000', and above Sosa 8-10,000', Duthie 188i-S6 ; Gori Ganga Vy. 9,000', MacLeod 

 1893. 



DlSTEIB.— ^sia : N. Ind. (Him.), Sikkim 7-10,000' ; Nepal, Wallich. 

 I have quoted Don's description as showing that the plant he described as 

 A. ilicifolium, — which is Wallich's A. pungens, Cat, 368, — had short pinnae 

 merely lobed and auricled. I cannot admit that the pinn» are ever again 

 pinnate as Beddome says Uiey are, though the auricle is sometimes quite free ; 

 indeed, I think Beddome would now put his more compound plants under his 



