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THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA, 
Including AFGHANISTAN, the ''rans-INDUS PROTECTED STATES, and KasuMir: 
atranged and named on the basis of Hooker and Baker’s Synopsis Filicum, 
and other works, with New Species added. 
By C. W.. Horr 
(Continued from Vol. XIT, page 633.) 
Parr I1I.—THE GENERAL LIST. 
Ord. FILICES. 
Sub-Ord. I. GLEICHENIACES, Br. 
Genus 1. GLEICHENIA, Sm. 
Sub-genus MERTENSIA, 
1, G.dichotoma, Willd.; Syn. Fil. 15. G. linearis, C. B. Clarke in 
C, BR, 428. G, linearis, Burm., under Polypodium, Bedd. H. B. 4. 
N.-W. P. : Kumaun—35-6000', S. and W.; Davidson; Askot, common 4--5000’ 
Duthie ; 6000’ Trotter ; 7500' MacLeod. 
DISTRIB.—Asia : N. Ind. (Him.)--Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhotan 4-7000'. Assam— 
Dehing R.; Khasi Hills 5000’, “common.” C. B. Clarke ; Sylhet. Centr. Prov.— 
Pachmarhi, Duthie, Centr. Ind., §. Ind. and Ceylon : mountains up to 6000’. Burma : 
Tenasserim, S. Andamans. Malay Penins. and Sumatra. HE. Timor, H. 0. Forbes, 
‘an erect fern.” 
Scandent over other jungle, sometimes for several hundred feet, often 
rooting (Clarke). Probably the fern said to form, in Kumaun, jungle 
difficult to penetrate ; but see above as to the habit of the plant in Timor. 
Sub-Ord, II. HyYMENOPHYLLACES, 
Genus 2. HYMENOPHYLLUM, Z. 
1, H. exsertum, Wall.; Syn. Fil. 58 ; C. R. 436 ; Bedd. H. B. 30. 
N.-W. P.: T. Garh.—7-8000', P. W. Mackinnon; Brit. Gark. 9000’, Duthie ; 
Kumaun 6-8000', 8. and W., Hope, Duthie, J. R. Reid, Trotter. 
DisTRIB.— Asia: N. Ind. (Him.)—Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhotan. 4-9000', very 
common eastward. Assam—Khasi Hills 2-5500’, common; Manipur, Clarke, Watt. 
Centr. Provs., very common (Bedd.), 8. Ind.: W. Ghats, Madras Presidency. Burma: 
Tenasserim. Ceylon. China : Yunnan. 
2. H. polyanthos, Sw. ; Syn. Fil. 60 ; C. R. 437 ; Bedd, H. B. 31, 
N.-W. P. : Kumaun—Dwali and Namik 8-9000', 8. and W.; Pindar Gorge 7-9000’, 
Trotter. 
Distris.— Widely diffused throughout the Tropics, and a little beyond them, both 
north and south” Amer.: from Cuba and Jamaica southward to Brazil, S. Chili, and 
Juan Fernandez. Asia : N, Ind. (Him.)—Sikkim and Bhotan 1006-12,000', abundant 
eastward. Assam—3-6000', ‘‘ very common,” Clarke; Kohima 9000’, Clarke. S. Ind.: 
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