THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA, 251 
C. farinosa, Kaulf., var. grisea, Blanford in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Vol. 
LXVITI, Pt. I, No. 4, 1888 ; C. furinosa, forma minor, Ol. and Bak. in Journ. 
Linn, Soc., Vol. XXV, p, 411; Bedd. Suppl. H. B. 21. 
“Stipes slender, 2-6 ins. long, light-brown, naked, or bearing a few thin 
brown and translucent lanceolate scales (not white-margined) near the 
base. Fronds dimorphous :—one form narrow lanceolate 4-5 ins. long 
1}-2 ims. broad, thin papyraceous: lower 38-4 pairs of pinne 
subequal distant : under surface thickly coated, upper surface sprinkled 
with white powder: segments narrow oblong. The other form 
ovate-lanceolate ; pinnz close, triangular ; lower two pairs equal. 
Both forms fertile. Involucres as in typical variety’? 
PuNJAB: Chamba ; Ravi Valley, 8500’, McDonell. Simla Reg.—Gt. Thibet Rd. 
from Nazkanda to Bagi, and Hattu Mt., $3-940u’, Blanf., Trotter, Bliss; Simla-—The 
Waterfalls, Bliss. 
N.-W. P.: D. D. Dist.—Mussoorie, about 6200’, Hope, {881; Brit. Garh,— 
Dombitia Gadk, 9-10,900’, Duthie; Awmawn—above Sosa, 9-10,000' ; Byans—Kali 
Valley, above Chalek, 11-12,000’, Duthie. 
DistRis.—Asia: N. Ind. (Him.) Sikkim—Darjiling, Sinchal, 8,090’, Gamble. 
Assam—Khasia Hills, Nunklow 2500’, Clarke No. 45686. 
MeDonell’s plant from Chamba is very elegant ; stipe twice as long as the 
frond, which is very white beneath ; involucres light-brown. Bliss’s speci- 
men from Bagi, No. 243, is similar but smaller, and stipe not so long ; and 
mine from Mussoorie is the same, but with numerous sharp-pointed scales 
extending half-way up the stipe : it, as well as Trotter’s from the Simla Region, 
has a little of the white powder on the upper surface, but in such cases the 
“ nowder? may have fallen from the under surface of other fronds. Blan- 
ford’s and Bliss’s specimen from the low elevation, as well as Duthie’s from 
B, Garhwal, have yellow-brown involucres. The powder in all cases is white. 
(To be continued.) 
