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identical with the Himalayan plant, is a later name. For Colonel ‘Beddome’s 
description, which was written from specimens found in only one locality in the 
Nilgiri Mountains, in 8. India, and which hardly covers the Himalayan plant, 
I substitute the following, which was written many years ago :— 
Plants isolated, or united in tufts by the matted roots ; Caud. erect, short ;” 
St. $-—25 in., rarely more than 1} in., densely tufted, soft, castaneous, clothed 
ab base with linear hair-pointed dark-coloured scales, upwards more or less so 
clothed, scales gradually changing upwards to soft hairs ; fr. linear-lanceolate, 
bipinnatifid, never nearly bipinnate, 2~—9 in, l, 3—14 in br.; rz. flattened, 
winged, green in upper two-thirds, the castaneous colour of stipes extending 
farthest up the inferior side and sometimes in patches ; pinn. 20-25 jugate, 
oblong with an exp nded base, or cuneate, sometimes leafy and then obliquely. 
triangular and less cui, subpetiolate, blunt, costae inconspicuous, undulate later- 
ally, lower pinns more distant, shorter but scarcely narrower at base, sometimes 
trifoliate in shape ; segm. 3-6 jugate, having 1-6 teeth according to number of 
veinlets, lower margins concavely cut or scooped out, lowesi anterior much cut 
away ; colour dark green; veins immersed, obscure ; sore costal, one at the 
base of cach segment, two or m7v'e in lowest anterior; /r. often very attenuate 
upwards and rhachis prolonged and then rooting aé tip ; segm. sometimes all 
truncate or emareinate ab apex, and there proliferous. 
PunsaB: Kullu—7-9000', Trotter; Simla Reg. 6-9000', not common; Gamble, 
Collett, Cattell, blant., Hope, Trotter, Bliss. 
N-W. P.; D. D. Dist.—Jaunsar, Barasti 7000’, Gamble ; Mussoorie—6000’ Hdgew., 
Dr. Bacon, Jameson’s Collr. 1850; 5500’—7000’, Lev. 1872, Mackinnons 1878, Hope 
1880-1895 (seen and studied yearly), plentiful in places on rocks in damp forest ; 
“ Garhwdl”’ Lev. 1872; 7. Garh.—Ganges Valley 6-7000,’ Duthie; Kumaun—Naini 
Tal, by the lake-side, Hope 1861; Harsila, Davidson 1875; below Naini Tal 
5-6000’ Trotter; Dhauli Valley 10,000’, ‘Duthie 1885-86 ; MacLeod 1883. ‘*N.-W. 
India”, Falconer. 
DistRin.—NV. Amer.: ‘* Mexico, JJ.. Consul - Glennie 3 Mexico—Rochers de 
Pedregal, Bourgeau, 1865-66, Chihuahua—Mapula Mts., Pringle 1866, Sonora, Lloyd 
1890. United States—Arizona : Huachucha (?) Mts., Lemmon 1882.— Asia: N. Ind. 
(Him,) Sikkim (!) Wangtu, Hook, fil. and Thons. 1847. 5S. Ind.: Nilgiri Mts., above 
Kalhatty waterfall, rave, Beddome 1864, Barliar 2500, Gamble. China—Moupin, 
David 1889; Mengtez; Yiinnan, W. Hancock 1893 : “shady rocks, very local.” 
I have found no difficulty in separating this Himalayan plant from A. fonta- 
num, Bernh.; bub it is noi without hesitation that I come to the conclusion that 
it is the same as Beddome’s Nilgiri plant. Beddome found his plant only m 
one station, and he then thought ib nearly allied to A. camptorhachis,  Kze., 
which Baker unites with A. /unulatwm, Sw.—-Gamble has a dozen plants ticketed 
A, exiguum, which he gob near Barlidr,. on’ the Nilgir’s, 2500’ alt., all small 
and narrow, and with . prolonged. rhachises. In the Synopsis /ilewm, under 
