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Mr. Thompson's speoimen in Kew was named N. calearatwn, Hook., by 

 Mr. Baker, bub Mr. Clarke afterwards marked it " typical falcilobum," which 

 Mr. Baker gives as a synonym of calcaratum. The plant recently found in 

 Grarhwdl agrees fairly well with the description in the " Synopsis," which is as 

 follows : — 



" St. densely tufted, stramineous, villose above ; fr. 1 ft, 1., 3 — 6 in. 

 br. ; pinnce spreading, 2-4 in. 1., | — | in. br., cut down two-thirds or 

 more to the rhachis into oblique, subfalcate, linear- oblong, acute or 

 blunt lobes ; eolour dark-green ; rhachis villose ; texture villose or sub- 

 ■ coriaceous ; under side more or less villose ; veinlels 3-6 on each side ; 

 sort medial ; invol. glabrous, persistent. Hk. Sp. 4, p. 98. JV.fddlobum, 

 Hk. Sp. 4, p. 108. 

 Mr. Clarke does not give N. calcaratum as a species, but instead sets up 

 N. ciliatum, 0. B. Clarke (Aspidium ciUatum, Wall. Cat. 351) = N. smceum, 

 J. Soott, Syn. Fil. p. 494 ; and he also gives, as a separate species, N.faldlolum, 

 Hook., which he says differs from N. {Lastrea) caharata, Bedd. F. S. I., 

 t. 246, and from Blume's Javan Asp. calcaratum, in the auricled stipe, the 

 cutting, the venation, the sori, and the involucres — i.e., in almost every par- 

 ticular, and — it might be added, in the colour, which in N. faldlobum seems 

 to be pale green. 



[No fern corresponding to N. precdlum, Baker, with erect caudex, 

 tufted stipes, prominent glands at base of pinnae, and lower pinnae 

 gradually reduced, is found in N.-W. India, so far as I know. The 

 specimens in herbaria so named as having been found in that region 

 all belong to the next two species, Nos. 7 and 8.] 



7. N. repens, n. sp.~Hope Plate VHI. (see Part H., Vol. XII., No. 3, 

 p. 535). 



Add, under Dibteib.— Assam— Shillong, C. B. Clarke No. 44652, 5—1887. 

 Chain — Yunnan A. Henry 10094, presented to Kew 1900. 



8. N. xylodes, Kunze in Linnsea, XXIV. 281 (under Aspidium) ; 

 N, prolixum, Baker, ^, N. tylodes^ Kze. (under Aspidium), Syn. Fil. 268 ; 

 N. prolixum^ Hk. and Bk., C. R. 516. Lastrea ochthcdes, Kze., var. 3 tylodes. 

 Kze. (under Aspidium), Bedd. H. B. 240. 



Punjab : Mandi State, near Dehlu, 5000', Trotter. 



N.-W. P.: D. D. Z)««^— Ridge west of Mussooree 5000', Mackinnons 1878-79, 

 T. fi'flJ'/t.—Mantargadh 6000', Gamble 1898 ; B. Oarh.,M.TB. Fisher; Kumaun— near 

 Naini Tal, Wigram Money, Hope 1861 ; Almora 5500', Trotter 1891; Kot-Ganti Ridge 

 6500', MacLeod 1893. 



DiSTBlB. — Asia: N. Ind. (Him.). Sikkim, Levinge, 1871. S. Ind. — Mts., rare 

 Ceylon. 



Kunze named bis plant xylodes ; but in the " Linngea" two pages further 



