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rum^ B. Clarke, 0. R. 533 (Linn, under Polt/podium; Sunw. der Asptdium). 



Teans-Ind. States : Siodt— below Laram Pass, 4000', Gatacre 1895. 



PUNJ^ B : Hazdra Diet.— Ttotter in. Lists ; Siran Vy., Inayat, collr. for Sahar. 

 Herb. 1896. Cha^nba St ate- McBonellinLUt andJ. Martea ; Kangra Vy. Ditt. 

 TFi, 25-3000', Trotter ; Hoshiarpur Dut.—kitvih.; Jalandhar, Aitch. } Simla Reg.— 

 Simla and vicinity — " not met with above 5000', but common in the deep valleys 

 at 4500' and below " : Blanford in List. 



N.-W. P. : B. D. Bist. — Jaunsar 3000' and lower, common in the Dehra Diin 

 1-3000'; T. Garh. near Bhatauli 4500', Hope ; ^. Garh. Mrs. Fisher. Kumaun— 

 Almora 4600', Hope; "Kumaun,"' Davidson 1875; Gola Vy. 35-4000', Bope ; 

 Gorakhpur Dist. — Nichaul (in a well), A. Campbell. 



DiSTRiB. — Amer. : — Cuba and Mexico to Peru and Brazil. Asia '. Himalaya 

 and S. India; China -Hong Kong. Australasia: N. S. Wales and N. Zealand. 

 A/r. : Macaronesia, Guinea Coast, Cape Colony, Mascaren Isles. 



Mr. Clarke says this species is very little variable, considering its extensive 

 range. There is, or was, close to Dehra a remarkable sport, which besides 

 forking, sometimes several times, has a tendency to become distinctly bipin- 

 nate, and when so is often soriferous. Such fronds were found on plants 

 producing also normal fronds ; and the sporting seemed to be luxuriance pro- 

 duced by moist rich soil in a ditoh, used also as an irrigation channel, with 

 dense shade overhead. I have seen plants with similar tendency on the slope 

 of a canal cutting near Dehra. I gathered many plants and fronds of this from 

 the first-mentioned station, but never got a frond wholly bipinnate. Had I 

 found a plant with only bipinnate fronds, I might have been tempted to propose 

 a new genus or subgenus — there being no bipinnate Euiiephrodium that I know 

 of. In the Calcutta Herbarium there is a specimen of a similar sport from 

 Sikkim, 1873. 



30. N. papiliO, n. sp.-— Plate XII. (see Part II., Vol. XII., p. 625). 

 Add, to localities : — T. Garh., Mancargadh 4500', Gamble, 27413, 



10-'98 ; B. Qarh., Mrs. Fisher, 



31. N. OCCUltnm, n. sp.— Plate XIII. (see Vol. XII., p. 627). 



Subgenus Sagenia, Presl. 



32. N. Cicutarium, Baker ; Syn. Fii. 299 ; C. R. 539. Aspidinm 

 eimtarium, Sw., Bedd. H. B. 220. 



Punjab ; Chamla /Stei^e— McDonell, in List ; Kangra Vy. Ditt. TF.— SOOO', 

 Trotter; Mandi Staie^T^rotter 1887; Simla Reg. — below the tonga road, 8 miles 

 from Simla, Bliss 1892 : new to the Region ; not in Blanford's List. 



N.-W. P. : D. D. Dist.— The Dehra Ddn and South slope of Himalaya, 15-5100', 

 common; T. Gark.— Ga,nges Vy. 3-4000', Duthie ; B. Garh, Mrs. Fisher. Kumaun — 

 Valley of the Sarju 4,000', R. Blink., in Herb. Wallich, 3500', S. & W. ; Naini 

 T^, Hope 1861 ; Davidson 1875 ; Kali Vy. 3-4000', Duthie 1884 ; Gola Vy. 2500' 

 Hope 1890. 



DlSTEIB.—^«ier, ; Cuba and Mexico, southward to Brazil and Peru. Asia: N., 

 Ind. CHim.^ Sikkim and Bhotan ; Assam ; Bengal - Chittagong, Chutia-Nagptir 



