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In the British Museum in a wrapper—“ 22, gquadriaurita— quinata, India” 
—are two old sheets (1829 watermark), without tickets, but enfaced—* Pteris 
quinata, Wall, in Herb.” : also a sheet from Duthie, No. 3704 (see above) 
with 2 fronds which have only 1 pair and a terminal pinna each. And there 
is a sheet with a ticket--“ Pieris qainata, Wall., H. Napalia, January, 1818, 
Goalmulia, Looh.” A sheet from J. Smith’s herbarium—“* Pteris subguinata, 
Wall. Ag. mon, 25 Syn. P. quadriaurita, Hk., Nepal, Wallich, Sp. Fil. 2, p. 
179,” suggests Clarke’s P. subindivisa from a low level in Sikkim, 
The stipes and rhachises of this fern are pale straw-coloured to yellowish- 
brown. All the specimens I have seen have, I think, one large ear on each 
pinna of the lower pair. The pinne are exactly opposite, and the lowest pair, 
with its ears, forms a flattened, unequally armed, Si. Andrew’s Cross, 
All the Kumaun specimens, from Strachey and Winterbottom’s time, 1848, 
to Mac Leod’s, 1898, agree with Wallich’s type, and are identical in every 
respect, and seem to me quite unlike P. guadriaurita. 
7. P.excelsa, Gaud.; Syn. Fil. 159 ; C. R. 467 ; Bedd, H. B. 114. 
KASHMIR.—? see under P. guadriaurita. 
PUNJAB : Chamba—Dalhousie 6000’, Ciarke, Ravi Vy. 7000’, McDonell, “common ” ; 
Kullu 6-8000', Coventry 1894 ; Simla Reg.—Simla 5-6000', Edgew., Bates, Gamble, 
Collett, Blanf. Trotter, Bliss ; Mahasu 7-8000', T. T. 
N-W. P.: D. D. Dist. —Jaunsar—Harianta 8000’, Gamble ; Mussooree 5-6500’, not 
common, Herschel, Mackinnons, Hone; 7. Garh.—Dhakara 5000’, T.T., Herschel ; 
Kumaun—Wallich ; near Naini Tal 6000’, Hope 1861, Lev. 1874, Pindar Gorge 
7500-8000’ Trotter ; Gori Ganga Vy. 7000’, MacLeod 1893—“ only one plant seen.” 
DIstRiB.—Asia : N. Ind. (Him.) Sikkim 8-9000', Sir J. D. Hooker ; Assam—Khasi 
Hills, Jerdon, Godwin Austen; North Cachar Hills 2500’, Mann; Burma, Wallich. 
China—Szechwan Prov., Henry, Faber. Philippines. Sandwich Isles. Hildebrand, 
Heller 1895. 
Blanford says :—‘‘ Very rare” (in the Simla Region). “ Apparently 
restricted to well-shaded spots by the margin of streams. I have collected it in 
wo places ab 5500’ and 5800’, but I have not met with it during the last 
few years, the original sites having been devastated by wood-cutters and cattle, 
or exhausted by collectors.” But Mr. Bliss has found the plant since then in 
several localities. 
Clarke thinks the Philippine station an error, and the Burma (Ava) one doubt- 
ful; but China must now be added as a habitat. I can confirm Clarke’s 
observation that the veins are not rarely 8—4 branched, 7. ¢., a vein is like a 
tuning fork, each fork forking again, and occasionally these secondary forks 
unite with each other. Inthe decurrent bases of the pimnules or segments 
some veins spring from the rhachis and not from the costa, as occurs in many 
other ferns. On the upper side of a frond I see a short seta or gland at the 
