THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 4T5 



sometimes tripinnate at base of pinnules. There seems to be an aristate 

 tooth, or awn, to each veinlet; but the awns are never so long as in the 

 European plant, and they therefore seem stiffer ; they are, however, really soft. 

 13. A. lUCtUOSUm, G. Kunze in Liqnea, Vol. 10. (1835-36) p. 548 ; 

 *'t 103. A, liictuosum, Kze.: costis rhachibus stipiteque fronde breviori nigris- 

 centi-paleaceis ] fronde lanceolato-acuminata, bipinnata, coriacea, ^/ums alternis, 

 petiolatis, longe attenuatis, sursum auriculatis ; pinnulis trapezio-ovatis, sub- 

 falcatis, mucronatis, basi sursum auriculatis, deorsum truncata ouneata decur- 

 rentibus, arristato-serratis ; indusiis reniformibus glabris." 



A. acuUaium, Sw., Syn. Fil. 252 ; A. TmsSimense, Hook., Sp. FU. IV. 

 16, t. CCXX. 



Kashmir: Jhelam Valley 3500'; Chitapani Valley 75—8000', Trotter 1888-89 j 

 Jhelam Valley, 5 miles from Rampur 4500', MacLeod 1 891 ; Upper Chenab Valley 

 6500', McDonell 1893. 



Punjab: Hazara Dis?.— Trotter iu MS. List of Punjab Ferns. Chaviha.—'Ka.yi 

 Valley, Ghanju 7000', and near Tisa 7000', McDonell 1882. 



DiSTBlB.— iV. Timur.— California. Asia : N. Ind. Assam— Mausmai, <?r(^«A, 1885 ; 

 Khasia— Cherra, Hk. & Th.— Japan— Island of Tsus SIma, in Straits of Corea, 

 Wilford ; Yokohama, DicMns. 



On seeing Mr. McDonell's Chamba specimens I thought them quite different 

 from A. acuhatum ; but it was not untU many years later that I found them 

 to be identical with a specimen from Natal, collected by Buchanan, which is 

 ticketed P. luctuosum, Kze. Then I had the privilege of a perasal of Dr. 

 Christ's monograph on Pohjsticlmm aculeatum ; and I also saw McDonell's 

 later collected specimens from Kashmir which were ticketed A. Tsus-Simmse, 

 and I wrote to him on the subject. He replied that he had got the name from 

 Colonel Beddome, who, on seeing those and other specimens of Mr. McDonell's 

 Kashmir collections, wrote as follo\vs :—"Aspidium— Upper Chenab Vy., 

 -=4. Tsits-Simense, Hook.; P.gured and described by Hooker in Sp. Fil, in- 

 cluded by Baker in Syn. Fil. under aculeatum. I call it Polysticliim aculeahm, 

 var. Tsus-Simense ; it exactly corresponds with the Japanese specimens. New 

 to British India." ( Now, I rather think Mr. McDonell referred to Colonel 

 Beddome after I had called his attention to the plant.) 



On revisiting Kew I have seen that on the cover which contains many China 

 and Japan specimens of A. Tsus-Simense Sir W. J. Hooker wi-ote in pencil — 

 " 20. Tsus-Simense est luctuosum, Kze., not Pappe." In the Synopsis both 

 these names are given as mxon-^ms, ot A. acvleatum^ Sw., though in the Sp. 

 Fil. Vol. IV., p. 16, A. Tsus-Simense is given as A. No. 20, and figured as 

 such on Plate CCXX. On the Herbarium working Copy of the Sp. Fil. Sir 

 William Hooker has written — " If the same as luctuosum, Kze, I fear it is too 

 mav aculeatum.''' On p. 19., under i. aculeaium, Sir William wrote, in ink, 



