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fertile, and that all the pinnee bear capsules on every segment, except at their 
apices, and at the apices of each pinnule. Taking one pinnule of the lowest 
pinna of a less than usually crowded frond, 6-pinnate, I count on it 125 
capsules. There must be about 500 capsules on that pinna, and probably 
4,000 on the whole frond ; and I dare say that number is doubled on large 
fronds. . 
On a sheet in the Kew Herbarium, from the Himalaya, “ Lady Dalhousie ” 
(no ticket), Mr. Baker has written —“a much larger plant than typical japoni- 
cum. 
O. melanolepis, Decaisne, got in Arabia, Persia, and Abyssinia, is very like 
O. multisectum, but it is smaller and more delicate. 
Genus 14, CRYPTOGRAMME, 2. Zr. 
1, C. ecrispa, R. Br.; Syn. Fil. 144; C. R. 459. Bedd. H. B. 98, and 
Suppl. 23. 
AFGHAN. : fide Beddome in Suppl. H. B. 
KASHMIR: Marbul Pass 11,200’ Clarke; 11-12,000’ Aitch.; McDonell, Duthie, 
Macleod. 
PongaB: Hazara—Makra Mt. 10-10,500' Trotter ; Chamba 9-10,000' Baden- Powell, 
McDonell; Kangra Valley List.—Dharmsala, 11,000’ Clarke ; Lahaul—Rohtang Pass, 
_ 12-13,000' Trotter ; Simla Reg.—near Phagu, Vicary 1831,—“ above Simla,’ Col. Bates. 
The Chur Mt., Edgew., 1886 (very long); Hattu Mt., and vicinity, &,500-10,000’, 
Gamble, Blanf., Hope, Bliss ; Bisahir—Kunawar, 9000’, Lace. 
N.-W. P.: 2. Garh.—Chachpur Peak, 10,000’, Gamble; 11-12,000’, Herschel, Duthie ; 
Brit. Garh.—12-14,000', Duthie; Kwmauwn—“In Alpibus summis Kumaun, legit 
Rob, Blinkworth, 1826” (Wallich’s writing on ticket on sheet of C. Brunoniana, 
Wall., in Herb. Hort. Kew); near Ralam 12,000’, 8. and W. 10-11,000', Trotter, 
MacLeod. 
NEPAL—W. 11-12,000', Duthie. 
DistRis.—The “Synopsis Filicum,” following Hooker in the “Species Filicum ™ 
recognises three forms— «. C. crispa, Huropean: distributed from Arctic Europe to 
Lake Baikal, Mt. Olympus in Bithynia, Etruria, and the Sierra Nevada ; 8. C. Bruno- 
niana, Wall,, Asiatic ; Himalayas at 10-16,000'; and v, C. acrosticoides, R. Br.— Worth 
American: from Sitka and Arctic Regions southward to Lake Superior, Oregon and 
California. 
The DISTRIBUTION in Asia is Sikkim—head of Lachen Valley, Hook-fil., Dankera 
2,000’, King’s Collector. China—Hupeh Prov. Henry, Szechwan Prov.—Mt. Omei 
' Gummit) Faber. Japan—Fawriec. 
Beddome, in Suppl. H. B., says—“ Gathered by Prain in the Crater on 
Barren Island, Andamans,” ‘This is a remarkable instance of isolation, and of 
an Arctic and Temperate Region fern growing in the Tropics, below 12° 
N. lat. 
I do not make out the differences between forms * and ® pointed out by 
Hooker and Baker ; but in the one locality where I have seen the Himalayan 
