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N.-W. P. : D. D. Dist. — Jaunsar : Khalsi ; Gammie, Shaora iioOO', C. G. Rogers 

 in the Dun, common in ravines, at foot of Himalaya, and up to Mussooree, 25-7000'. 

 T. Garh. — Ganges Valley 5-6000', Diilhie ; B. Garh.—MTB. Fisher ; Kumaun — Naini 

 Tdl 7500', Hope 1861 ; Davidson : Gola Valley, above Eanibagh 2-2500', Hope 1890 ; 

 *' very common in all valleys, 2-5000','" MacLeod. 



DISTBIB.— ^5<a : N. Ind, (Him.) Sikkim and Bhotan ; Assam — Khasia 2-4500', 

 frequent; Bengal— Chutia-N^gpur 2-iJOOO'. Ceylon — Malay Peninsula. S. Chinu. 

 Afr. ; Trop. ; Mauritius. 



Mr. Clarke says — very partial to limestone ; but I find it grows also on 

 sandstone and shale. It flourishes on dry cliffs, in tlie clefts of which it buries 

 its procumbent rhizome, which has a beautiful covering of long golden-chest- 

 nut scales. The sori are rarely nephrodioid, generally looped, or hippocrepiform : 

 towards tips linear. The plant might almost be put in Althyrium. 



25. N. Boryanum, Baker, non Hook. ; Syn. Fil. 284 ; C. R. 527. 

 Lastrea Boryana^ Willd. (under Aspidii/m), Bedd. H. B. 266. 



Punjab: Chamba — McDonell Cin List of Chamba Ferns identified at Kew ; 

 Kangra Vy. Dist. — Dharmsdla, C. B. Clarke 1874 ; Simla Reg. — Simla, Col. Bates, 

 Dr. Cattell, JOth Hussars, 1876; Simla waterfalls, Gamble; Simla—" the Glen'' 

 6000', Blanford : " not uncommon in well-shaded ravines below 6000' " ; Simla, 

 below Petersfield 5500', in the open, Hope 1886. 



N.-W. P.: B. D. Z)i5*.— Mussooree ? Duthie, Herschel ; T. fi'arA.— Bhatauli 

 4-5000', Mackinnons, Hope ; ZMnjauw- Sarju Valley 3-4000', Duthie ; Trotter. 



DiSTEiB.— ylsja : N. Ind. (Him.), Sikkim Hooli. fil., C. B. Clarhe ; Bhotan Griffith, 

 C. B. Clarke, Levinrje ; Assam WaZ/icA, Khasia ; Barma — Tonghoo. S. Ind.— Ana- 

 raa,\la.j Hills, Beddome. Malaya. China — Yunnan Henry. 3 a'pan. J/r. : Ruwenzori 

 Mt., Scott Elliot ; Johanna, Mauritius, Bourbon. 



26. N. setigemm, Baker ; Syn, Fil. 284. N. tenericaule, Hook., C. R. 

 528. Lastrea tenericauUs, Wall., under Polypodium^ Bedd. H. B. 266. 



Punjab : Chamia State — Dr. George Watt, fide Trotter. 



DiSTRiB.— J««fl; N. (Him.), Nepal, Sikkim; Assam— up to 4000' : E.Bengal— 

 " very common, extending some way into the plains, as to Sylhet Station,''' ClarJte. S. 

 Ind. — on tbe W. Mts., 2-3000' : " very common," ^e^^rfoiw^! in H. B. Burma. Ceylon 

 1500'— 3000'. Malaya, China, Australia, Polynesia (Clarke, in ' Review'.) 



This species is entered in Trotter's Lists, both printed and MS., and 

 he wrote to me about it, but I do not think I saw the specimen. It is not 

 entered in McDonell's List of Chamba* Ferns identified at Kew ; and Blanford 

 did not admit it as a fern of the Simla Eegion, where Dr. Cattell, in his pub- 

 lished list, said it had been got. 



Subgenus Eunephrodium. 



27. N. mOlliUSCUlum, Wall, (under Polypodiim), Cat. 332, Bedd. 

 Suppt. H. B. 68. N. Hopei^ No. 165* Baker, in Ann. Bot., Vol. V., No. 

 XVIII. N. molle, Desv., an E. Indian form of, Syn. Fil. 293. N. eztmmm, 

 vars. microsora and late-repeus, C. R. 529, 530. N. microsormiy Clarke, 

 Bedd. H. B. 270.— Plate XXXIV. 



