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PANJAB : Chamba.—Dalhousie, Clarke, McDonell cin List); Kul/w—7000', Trotter ; 
Simla Reg.—Simla, 5 stations 5-5000', Gamble, Collet, Blanf., Trotter, Bliss, 
N.-W.P.: D.D, Dist.—Sowarna Nala, 4500', Mackinnons 1879, P. W. Mackin- 
non and Hope 1881 ; Kumaun—near Naini Tal, 6000',(?) Hope 1861, between Dandiha 
and Karela 5-6000’, Duthie 1884, Dhankuri to Khati 75-8000’, Trotter 1891. 
_.. DIstRIB.—Asia ; N. Ind. Him.) Nepal, Wallich (A.letum, Wall. Cat. 209, not 
of Swartz); Sikkim and Bhotan, common, Assam—Khasi Dist. 1-5000', common. 
. Bengal—Chittagong. Manipur W. 2000’, Clarke. S. Ind. ‘¢ Madras Presidency, in 
all the Western Forests up to 5000’ (Beddome in Handbook). Burma, Kusz. Bur- 
ma—Tenasserim ? Ceylon. Malayan Penins. and Isles, Borneo—Hose, Tonkin— 
Balarsa. Japan, China—Henry, Polynesia. Afr. : Guinea Coast, Fernando Po, 
-and Angola ; Nyassa Land, A. Whyte ; Maseareen and Seychelles Isles. 
Trotter calls his Kullu, and Blanford his Simla, p'ant—var. uda, W.8. Atkin- 
son, but I think these are merely young states of the larger plant got by Bliss at 
“Simla, by the Mackinnons in the Dehra Din, and by myself near Naini Tal, 
Parish’s immature Tenasserim specimen is doubtfully this, and Kurz’s specimen 
from Burma has sor? much shorter than usual. 
8. A. planicaule, Wall.; Syn. Fil. 211. A. laciniatwum, Don, var. 
planicaule, (sp.) Hook, C. R. 482. A. laciniatum, Don, Bedd. H. B. 154, 
in-part. 
PuNsAB: Chamba—MecDonell (in List); Simla Reg.—Simla and vicinity 5000’ 
and upwards, pretty common, 8 stations; Kunawar; Sirmur 1831. 
N.-W. P.: D. D. Dist.; Jaunsar; Mussoorie. and vicinity 4700’—6500', not 
uncommon; 7. Garh.—below Laluri 3-4000’, and Manma to Barahat, Duthie ; Sahira 
7000’, Gamble; Brit. Garh., below Kinoli 5000’, Duthie; “ Garhwal,” T. T.; 
Kumaun 3-9000', common. 
Disraisp.—Asia : N. ind. (Him.) Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, Bhotan. Assam-Khasia 
Hills 2-6000’, ‘‘ very common.” Bengal—Chutia-Nagpur, Parasnath Mt. 1858. 
Manipur 6000’, Watt. S. Ind.—Madras Presidency, (A laciniatum) “‘ All the West- 
ern Mts. 3-8000' (Beddome in H. B.); Bombay Presidency—Mts. of Malabaria 
(Clarke in Rev.), Ceylon. Japan. China—Ningpo Mts,, Faber 1885 (so named by 
Mr. Baker: pinne blunt.), Yiinnan, Delavay 1883 (segments blunt), Hancock. 
Afr. : Madagascar, Buchanan, Baron. ‘ 
Mr. Clarke says the abundant Khasia form is the type of A. laciniatum, 
Hk, Sp. Fil. iii, t. 200 A., but he does not differentiate the localities for his var, 
plancoue (sp.) Hk. sp. Fil. ii, t. 200 B. Beddome writes of “ typical plani- 
coule”’ of S, India, and “ typical laciniatum” of N. India; but I am not sure 
whether he means that both typical plants are to to be found in both localities, 
Typical A. laciniatum (as Hooker understood ii—see his fisvre in the 
Species Filicum) is unknown in N,-W, India, and I consider A. planicaule 
good species. I do not think I have seen a type specimen of Clarke’s var. 
depauperata, which he says comes principally from Kumaun. Plants that 
Blantord and Trotter have named var. depauperata are only small planieaule, 
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