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1-4000', common. S. India — " the more hairy variety, known as coadunata, only 

 ia tonnd ''"' CBedd. H. B.) ; Burma. Ceylon. J^/r. : Guinea Coast, Angola, Zambesi 

 Land, Mascaren Islands. 



No mention is made in the Synopsis of Clarke's var. coadunata. Wall. Cat. 

 377, partly : — " Frond thick, hairy on the rhachises, and often on the frond 

 beueatb," which he says is as widely spread in North India as the typical 

 N. cicutarium^ and still more plentiful. I have seen no such hairy Sagenia from 

 N. India, or indeed from elsewhere. Clarke goes on to say that N. coadunatum 

 is a stout, firm, thick, hairy frond on a short stipe, but that Wallich's type 

 sheet of Aspidium coadunatum is very glabrous, and is unfortunately 

 exactly that variety which has been known in India as not var. coadunata ! 



I have a specimen of this fern from Simla, a portion of a thin, light-green, 

 membranous frond, with small sori confined to the long, pointed lobes, and 

 scarcely a trace of involucre ; and involucres are hardly visible in a large speci- 

 men from below Mussooree. On the other hand, in one specimen received fi'om 

 the Messrs. Mackinnon, collected near Mussooree, the involucres are persistent, 

 but only y^h in. diam. ; while in another, from the same source, they are §-th in. 

 diam., and so crowded all over the frond as often to overlap one another : their 

 diameter is thrice that of the sorus, and they are all nephrodioid. A specimen I 

 collected at 5100' alt., below Mussooree, is mounted on five 18^ in. sheets : the 

 second lowest pinnse are 22 in. 1., giving a Ireadth of frond of 44 in., and the 

 lowest pinnffi are 24" X 12", and 26^" X 1-3", respectively. Some American 

 specimens are comparatively small, and not broad below. 

 Genus 24. Nepheolbpis, ScJiott. 



1. N. COrdifolia, Presl.; Syn. Fil. 300 ; C. E. 540 ; N. cordifolia, Linn, 

 under Poli/podium, Bedd. H. B. 282. 



iSI.-W. p. : r. Oarh.— below Laluri 3-4000', Duthie 1881 ; B. Garh.—S-iOGQ', 

 P. W. Mackinnon 1881 ; Kinoli Vy.— 4-5000', Duthie 1885. Xmnaun—SaTJn Vy., near 

 Bagesar 3-3500', S. & W. 1848, Trotter 1891 ; Sarju— Ganga Vy. 3500', MacLeod 1893. 



DiSTEiB. — Amer. : Cuba and Mexico to Brazil and Peru. Asia : H. Ind. (Him.), 

 Bhotan, up to 5000' ; Bengal — Chittagong, as well as on the hills to the south of 

 Hiadostan. S. India. Ceylon, Burma. Malaya. Japan. Australia and N. Zealand. 

 A/r. : Guinea Coast, Zambesi Land and Masoaren Islands. 



2. N. VOlubiliS (J. Smith), Clarke in ' Review ' 541, t. 78 ; Bedd. 284. 

 N. exaltata, Schott, Syn. Fil. 301 : "a straggling, flexuose form." Mr. 

 Clarke's description is : — 



" Rhizome climbing 25 — 30 ft. high over trees, with adpressed chesunut 

 scales in the short lateral distant spurs, whence spring clusters of stipes ; 

 pinnae obtuse or not very acute ; venation and sori much as in N. 

 exaltafa. Aspidium exaltafum, Wall. Cat. 1031, partly marked vix 

 exuUatum by Wallich, Lindsaya lauminosa^ Wall. Cat. 154. 

 . iI7.-W. P. : Zmwwjmm— Naini TAl, Hope 1861 ; once seen. 



