THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA, 
Including Afghanistan, the Trans-Indus Protected States, and Kashmir: 
arranged and named on the basis of Hooker and Baker’s Synopsis Filicum , 
and other works, with New Species added. 
By 0. W. Hope, 
(Continued from page 325.) 
Part II. 
NEW SPECIES.* 
Genus 8— DAVALLIA, Smith . 
Subgenus— Leucostegia, Presl. 
5. Davallia Beddomei, n. sp.—Rhiz. creeping on trees, hard, woody, 
branching, densely clothed with light-brown, large, broadly lanceolate-acuminate 
scales, peltately attached near the free base, thickly overlapping each other, not 
adpressed, persistent; st . articulated on rhizome, and clothed like it for a 
short way up, -and with a few large scales scattered higher; fr. lanceolate- 
acuminate, sometimes much attenuate at apex, lowest pair of pinnae hardly 
shorter than next two pail’s above, 5—14 in. 1., and up to 6 in. br., bi-tripinnate, 
and sometimes deeply quadripinnatifid ; pinn 15—20 pairs besides the pinnati- 
fid apex, distant, lowest pair subopposite, others increasingly alternate until all are 
equi-distant, lanceolate and sometimes much acuminate, subequal-sided, lowest 
pair broadest and sometimes with inferior pinnules next the stipe enlarged ; 
rhachis of pinna slightly winged ; pinril. up to 12 pairs besides the pinnatifid 
apex, those on superior side of pinna slightly longest except sometimes on lowest 
pair of pinnae, in fully fertile fronds cut down to a winged rhachis, leaving up to 
6 pairs of tertiary segments free, which again are deeply cut down into three or 
more unequal-sided lobes either simple and non-soriferous, or cleft into unequal 
horns and then soriferous ; texture herbaceous ; colour of fronds olive green, 
. — of stipes and rhachises more or less pink ; veins of tertiary divisions pinnate 
in the lobes : veinlets of lobes simple or abruptly branched into two parts curv- 
ing round into the hooked horns of the ultimate soriferous lobes ; sori one at 
the base of each cleft lobe across* the forked veinlet ; invol. persistent, nearly 
as wide as the cleft lobes. (Plate I.) 
Punjab: Kullu 9-10,000', Trotter; Simla Beg. 8-10,000', Collett, Blanf., Hope, 
Bliss, Lace : common at these elevations. 
N.-W. P. : D , I). Diet. — Jaunsar 7-9000', Herschel, Duthie, Gamble, Mrs. Stanstieia ; 
T.Garh. 8-10,000', Lev., Mackinnons, Gamble; Brit. Garhwal 8-10,000', Duthie; 
Kumaun 8-1*2,000', Duthie, Trotter, MacLeod. 
Distrib.— Asia : N. Ind. (Him.)— Nepal ; Sikkim ; Bhotan. 
• The serial numbers prefixed to the New Species show their place under each 
genus in the General List (Part HI), where the names only will be repeated. 
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