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NEPAL—W.: Opposite Buddhi Village 9-10,000', Duthie, 1886, 
DistRIB.—S. Amer.: “Gathered also lately by Mr. White in New Grenada, and 
doubtless only a denudate variety of farinosa.” (Syn. Fil.). Asia: N. Ind. (Him.) 
Sikkim—-Lachen Valley 10,000’, Sinchal, 8000’, 
I feel sure that the habitat given in the Synopsis—* North of Hindustan,”— 
so far as it may mean that the fern is got below the Himalaya, is a mistake : 
this is eminently a high-level fem. The remark in the Synopsis quoted above 
is, I presume, Mr. Baker’s. I consider that Hooker was quite right in setting 
up this fern as a species. Whether in shape of frond, appearance, or habitat 
it is quite unlike C. farinosa, and there is no passage between them either 
physical or topographical. The specimens of C. Dalhousie got by: me in 
Mussoorie in 1890 were growing among C’. albo-marginata, dealbate fronds of 
which are rather like it. I have not heard of C. Dalhousie having ever been 
found elsewhere, or by anyone else, in Mussoorie. Since Mr, Clarke’s “ Review ” 
was published, Colonel Beddome seems to have given up C. Dalhousiae asa 
South Indian plant. | 
Blanford says—‘ Quite distinct from C. farinosa, and subject to little 
variation. Its range”? (in the Simla Region) “is from 7800’ to the highest 
visited (10,500'). It appears to be restricted to the Himalaya, and is most 
abundant in the N.-W. Himalaya. In Sikkim it appears to be rare, but 
Sir J. D, Hooker gathered it ab 10,000’ on Lachely ? (Lachen Vy. ?), “and 
Mr. Levinge found it growing plentifully on Sinchal close to Darjiling at 
8060’, He agrees with me as to its specific value. The following is a 
description of its distinctive characters :— 
“ Stipes 2 to 4 ins. long, shorter than the frond, naked or with a few 
lax spreading scales near the base. Fronds 6 to 9 ins. long, 2 to 4 ins, 
broad, acute lanceolate, without white powder at any stage of growth. 
Lower two pairs of pimne subequal. Segments narrow. lines of 
sori interrupted at the sinus. Involucres even, crenate or toothed on 
the margin, hardly lacerate.” 
Some of Mr. Duthie’s specimens from Kumaun are the largest I have seen— 
15 in. 1. by Tin. br., without stretching, besides the stipe. His No. 3,644, 
Kumaun—Forest above Sosa, 9-10,000’, mounted in the Kew Herbarium on 
the same sheet with Beddome’s C. farinosa, Kaulf., var. flaccida, from the 
Annamallay Hills, Madras Presidency, is said to have—“ fronds meally on 
both surfaces,” but as mounted the upper surface is not visible. The mealiness 
of Cheilanthes in Kew has generally been washed off in the process of poisoning: 
I would separate, as perhaps a new species, Dr. King’s No. 90 from Chumbi 
in Thibet, Ling-moo-tong, 27-7-84, in the Calcutta Herbarium. The 
frond is deltoid and tripinnate, 
