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has broad pinnee, and, as rarely, a sterile frond, which normally has broad serrated- 
edged pinnee, has some patches of sori on it. The rhizome is creeping : stipes 
approximate, but in progressive order, not tufted ; and the plant forms large 
beds. 
3. P. digitata, Wall. Cat. No. 91. P. stenophylla, Hk. and Gt., Ic. 
Fil., t. 130. Peris cretica, L, @, P. stenophylla, Ak. and Gr., Syn. Fil. 154. 
Pteris pellucida, Presl., var. stenophylla (sp.), Hk. and Gr., CO. R. 463 : Bedd , 
A. B. 107 (as Clarke). 
PUNJAB : Chamba ; MeDonell in MS. List of Chamba Ferns identified at Kew ; 
Simla Reg.—Mashobra, 7000’, below Sipi (Sibpur) 5500’, Bliss, 1890, 1891, 1892. 
N.-W. P.: D. D. Dist.—Mussooree, not uncommon, 5-6000°; near Jharipani 4800’ 
in quantity, Hope ; inthe Dfn in several places from below 2,500’ to 3,000’, Hope, 
Gamble; 7. Garh., Lev. 1872 (named by him P. dactylina, Hook.) ; Mussooree and 
Chakrata Road, Hope; Kumaun—Bageswar 3000', S.and W. 1848, Trotter 1891 ; 
Sarju Valley and elsewhere, “grows in dense shade,” MacLeod 1893. 
DIstRIB.— 4sia : N. Ind. (Him.) Nepal. 
As I have already stated, under P. eretica, I consider this fern quite distinct 
from that species, and also from P. pellucida. I therefore give it as a separate 
species, and Wallich’s name, P. diyitata, being the older, must hold good. 
Wallich’s lithographed catalogue, which, on account of the wide distribution 
made of the plants enumerated in it with lithographed tickets cut out of it, is 
held by the Kew and other authorities to be equivalent to publication, is dated 
(the Preface) Ist December, 1828. The “ Zcones Filicum ” of Hooker and Gre- 
ville, in which the plant was described and exactly figured, waspublished in 1831. 
Synonyms therein given are—Pteris stenophylia, Wallich MSS., 1829, and 7. 
angusta, Wall. MSS. 1825 (non Bory). The habitat cited is. “in Napalia, 
Wallich, 1818,” and it is remarked—“ Nearly allied to Pz. /eta of Wallich’s 
MSS. (from Nepal) and the European Pt. cretica; but it may be known 
in both by its quite simple pinne and the entire margins.” The entry in 
Wallich’s catalogue is “ Pteris digitata, Wall. in Herb. 1823, Napalia, 1820.” 
Some specimens in the Kew Herbarium are named “P. digitata, 
Wall.” in Wallich’s own handwriting, and 2 sheets have tickets of Wallich’s 
P. angusta, Wall. 1818, but none are marked P. stenophylla, The name 
adhered to in the catalogue, P. digitata, must be accepted. P. w/a, Wall., is 
P. cretica, 
Mussooree—unless some still unknown place in Nepal is—appears to be the 
headquarters of the species, and in several localities there and in the neighbout- 
hood it is plentiful. It often grows at the foot of and under rocks and clifts, 
in shady places, but in single plants, and never in dense clumps and beds as 
E. cretica often does. The longest and most upstanding plants 1 have seen 
