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W. Ghats of Madras Presidency. Burma. Ceylon. Malay Penins. Java. N.-Zealand. 
Afr.: W. Trop.; Mase. Isles. 
Genus 3. TRICHOMANES, Smith. 
1, T. Filicula, Bory ; Syn. Fil. 81. 7. dipunctatum, Poir., C. R. 440 ; 
Bedd. H. B. 41. . 
PunsaB: Simla Reg.—55-6000', Edgew., Hope, Gamble, Blant., Trotter. 
N.-W. P.: D. D. Dist.—Mussooree 55-6000’, frequent, Duthie, Mackinnons, Hope 
Kumaun. 
DistRisp.— Asia: N. Ind. (Him.)—Nepal, Sikkim, Bhotan 5000’ and upwards : 
common eastward. Assam—Khasi Hills 2-5000'’ and upwards, common ; Manipur, 
Watt. S.Ind.—All the W. forests of Madras and Bombay Presidencies up to 8000” 
Burma. Nicobar Isles. Ceylon. Malay Penins. Tonkin. Java. Borneo. Fcrmosa. 
Japan. China. Polynesia. Af7.: Fernando Po, Natal, Cape Colony, and Mase. 
Isles. f : 
This fern, in N-W. India at leas, is often slightly white-powdered, when 
dried, and generally highly aromatic, the scent being like that of some 
umbelliferous piant. My specimens, collected at Simla in 1871, are still 
fragrant. It grows in sheets orsods on rocks and tree trunks, just as 
Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense does in Europe, the creeping rhizomes and 
the roots being matted together. Specimens collected by Mr. G. Mann in 
the Khasi Hills of Assam, at 5000’, are large and stiff, up to 5 inches long. 
2, T. pyxidiferum, L.; Syn. Fil. 81; C. R. 140; Bedd. H. B. 42. 
N..W. P.: Z. Garh.—Bok. Mt: 9-10000’, Duthie ; Kumaun—Pindar 8000’, 
Strachey 1856, in Herb. Hort. Calcutta. 
DisTR1s.—Amer.: From Mexico and W. Ind. southward to Brazil and Peru. ‘Asia: 
N. Ind. (Him.)—Sikkim. Assam—Khasi Hills and.Cachar. H. Bengal—Chittagong 
0-1500’, common. 8. Ind. Forests (Bedd.). Burma. Nicobar Isles. Malay Penine, 
(6 in. 1.) Borneo. New Caledonia. Afr.: Angola, Cape Colony, and Mase, Isles. 
Mr. Clarke says there is no Himalayan example of this at Kew, except a 
scrap from Levinge, said to be from Darjiling. I possess a specimen 
collected and given to me by Levinge in 1871. There is a specimen, from 
the Victoria Falls, Darjiling, 6500), collected by Levinge, and presented 
by me, I think, in the Saharanpur Herbarium ; and in Mr, Gamble’s 
herbarium I find a sheet from the Tista Valley, Darjiling district, 1000’, 
No. 5052, collected by him in Septr. 1873; another sheet, collected 
by him Darjiling 7500., No, 7216, Octr. 1879 ; and a third, No, 8084, 
Darjiling, May 1880. There is, therefore, no doubt that this species is 
found in the Himalaya, and that it extends to the westward of the Ganges, 
for the plant got by Mr. Duthie in Tehri Garhwal has the distinctive 
bzoadly winged or bell-mouthed tube enclosing the fruit. Some specimens 
from Hastern India are much larger and stiffer than those just mentioned. : 
