444 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCTETY, Vol, XIII, 
Distrais.—Asia: N. Ind. (Him.) Nepal ; Sikkim 9-10,000', common ; Assam—Mishmi 
aud Khasia 3-6000'; Burma—Ava. Java. Japan. China. TimoriH. O. Forbes. 
Clarke says—“ Tufted,” but his own specimens in Kew have a creeping 
rhizome, with distant stipes, and I have never seen the plant otherwise furnished. 
The mistake was corrected in Clarke and Baker’s paper, Jour. Linn, Soc., 8th 
Aug., 1888, where the authors say—“ Rhizoma semper longe-repens, mediocre 
nec crassum, frondibus remotis ; in var. multisecta rhizoma omnino idem.” 
In Kew there is a specimen, on the same sheet with others from Nepal and 
Japan, marked by Mr. Baker—‘‘ Wild at Bott Head, Salcombe, Devon, John 
Luscombe, Alvington, Torquay, recd. 1-72.” This of course must bea case of 
introduction. © 
3. O. contiguum, Wall. (under Chilanthes), Cat. 72. O. japonicum, 
Kze., var. muitisecta (sp.), F. Henderson, MS., (Cheilanthes contigua, Wall. Cat., 
72, Leptosteyia lucida, Don., Prod. Fl. Nepal, 14), C. R. 459. 
KASHMIR: Rattan Pir 8000’, Trotter 1888; Pir Panjal 8000’, Gammie 1891 : 
marked O. japonicum var. 
PoNnJAB: Hazara Dist., Black Mt., between Sambalpat and Nimmal 7-8009,’ Duthie, 
1888, Machpuri Mt. 9000’, Changla Gali 8000’, Trotter 1890. Chamba—Dalhousie 
7000', Clarke 1874, McDonell; Aangra Valley Dist.—Dharms4la 8000’, Trotter; 
Mandi State 6-10,000', Trotter; Aullu Edgew., Trotter 7000’; Lahawl—Capt, Hay 
1856, inHerb. Hort. Saharanpur; Simla Reg.—Simia, Griffith, T. T., Col. Bates, 
Dr. Bacon, Lady Dalhousie, Gamble, Hope, Bliss and Blanf., who says—“one of the 
cormmonest Simla ferns, growing abundantly, on the ground, both in forest and on 
the open hill-side, It has a creeping root-stock. The range at Simla is from 6000’ 
to 9000’.” 
N-W.P.: D, D. Dist—Jaunsar—Rupin Valley 4500’, C. G. Rogers, Mussooree, 
6-7000’, common; 7. Garh.—Aglar Valley, Duthie ; Kumaun—Jacquem., Wallick (R. 
Blink.), Edgew., 8. and W., Davidson, Trotter, MacLeod. 
Distrip.—Asia: N. Ind. (Him.) Sikhim, Hook-fil, China: Yimnan, Delavay. 
Colonel Henderson does not appear to have written a description of this 
species, but he defended it in a letter preserved in the Kew Herbarium. The 
description in Clarke’s “ Review ’ is as follows :— 
“ Fertile frond very finely cut, often 5-pinnate; ripe capsules straw- 
coloured, not numerous; involucre remaining closed over the ripe 
capsules.” 
And the remarks are :— 
“Frond herbaceous, hardly shining, not coriaceous. This is more 
easily separated from O. japonicum type than is U. awratum, and has 
been estimated a species both by Wallich and F. Henderson, to 
whose opinion the area lends support. But if it is estimated a 
species, I da not know to which the next variety should be attached.” 
