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DiSTEiB. — IV. Amer.: W. Indies — St. Vincent E. G. Smith, No. 789 (in Herb. 

 Saliar.). Asia : N. Ind. (Him.), Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim and Bhotan, common : 

 Assam— Khasia, 4.-6000', common, Kohima and Jakpho, 65-7000', C. B, Clarhe. Mani- 

 pur— Keyang, 8000', i)r. 6. Watt. S. Ind.— Nilgiiis, &c. Ceylon. Burma. Malaya, 

 China— Yunnan, Henry 1898. Polynesia, 



MoDoneirs specimen from Chamba (which I do not possess) has aboub 2 1 

 pairs of distinct pinnse, cub down \ — ^ to the rhachis ; pale brown scales 

 on undeveloped fronds and base of stipes of old ones ; traces of shed, blackish 

 hair-like, scales on rhachis ; mere traces of involucres ; pinnae hardly enlarged at 

 base. Gamble's plant from Jaunsar has about 20 pau's of pinnae enlarged at 

 base by longer, rounded, lobes on both sides. Other specimens I have had 

 from 20 down to only 10 or 1 1 paire of pinnae besides the suddenly narrowed 

 pinnatified apex. A specimen from Darjiling, which Mr. Levin ge marked as 

 being typical, has stipes 12| in., frond 15 in. by 10 in., with only 13 pau's of 

 pinnae which are nearlj 1 in. broad. The number of sori on a group of veins 

 (or segment; varies in this specimen from 1 pair, near the apes of a pinna, to 7, 

 or even 9 pairs, about the middle. Five pairs seem about the maximum on the 

 narrower pinnae of other specimens. 



Nephrodium hirtipes, Hook., is Aspidium Mrtipes, Blume, Enum. PL Jav., Fil. 

 14-8 ; and it is said also to be Aspidium atratum, Wall., Cat. 380 ; but I find that 

 of three sheets in the Wallichian collection, in the Linnean Society's Herba- 

 rium, one (named A. atratmn by Wallich himself) isiV. paralkUgrammum, Kze. 

 {N. paieiitissimum, Wall.), and so is another — not named atmtum by Wallich. 

 The third sheet, named by Wallich " Aspidium atratum, Napalia 1821," is 

 N. hirtipes : the specimen is 16 in. broad, but it is incomplete : one-fourth or 

 one-third of the frond is missing ; there are 12 paii'S of pinnae — up to 1 in. br., 

 cut down ^th, more or less : veins 4-5 pairs in a group ; segments with a beak ; 

 scales long, narrowing upwards, very dark brown, to black high up. The veinlets 

 in JV. hirtipes are all simple and stop short of the margin : those in N. parallelo- 

 grammum are all forked, and they project beyond the margin, forming 

 small teeth ; and the segments are not " beaked." In the British Museum 

 Herbarium there are many specimens of N. hirtipes named A. atratum. (by 

 Wallich himself ?) : none of these are from the westward of Nep^l ; and none, 

 I think, are N. Gamblei, my next species. 



4. N. Gamblei, n. sp.— Plate VII. {See Part II., p. 533.) 



5. N. gracilescens Hook. ; Syn. Fil. 262 ; 0. R. 513 ; Bedd. H. B. 

 234. 



N.-W. P. : 7. fi'arA.- Phedi, E. of Landour, 4-5000', Duthie 1881. 



DiSTBiB.— ^«za : (Him.), Nepal and Sikkim 6-8000', " not common," C. B. Clarke; 

 Assam— Griffith ? Khasia 4000', plentiful, C. B. Clarke. S. Ind.— fide Clarke and 

 Beddome, Ceylon, Java, China, Japan. 



