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1 dedicate this beautiful species to Colonel Beddome, who has done so much 
for ferns, and who has shown me that it is undescribed. It is the high-level 
plant which is not got in the parts of the Himalaya most frequented by Euro- 
peans, and consequently has been seen growing, or noticed, by few collectors. 
It can never be mistaken, in growth at least, for the low-level plants, so com- 
mon in the outer range of the Himalaya, be these D. pulchra , or D. pseudo - 
cysiopterisy or D. Delavayi . The fronds are never deltoid, or even subdeltoid, in 
shape, as are those of D. pulchra and D. pseudocystopteris, and the stipes 
are generally comparatively short, and, like the rhachis, pinkish in colour, 
which tinge gives a character to the plant. The large, broad scales of 
the rhizome, suggesting pale-coloured raisin skins, are very characteristic. 
It is sometimes difficult to separate the members of this group by their 
ultimate cutting, as that seems to vary with age of fronds and degree of their 
fertility; but I consider the difference in shape of fronds, in scales, in colour, and 
in habitats to be quite sufficient distinction. Blanford, who called this plant 
D. pulchra, Dbn, said — “ The typical form, distinguished by its red rhachis, 
obtuse segments and ovate scales of the rhizome, is abundant on trees on 
Kamalhori and Hatu (Mts.) above 8,500 ft., but does not occur lower.” 
Genus 12— CHEILANTHES, Sw. 
6. Cheilantlies dubia, n. sp.— Caud. erect, undistinguishable — hidden 
by the numerous stipe3 ; st. densely tufted, stout, round, about as long as the 
fronds, when young — thickly covered with linear-lanceolate hair-pointed scales 
with dark centres, which diminish in size and become paler in colour upwards, 
and are there mixed with small, pale-brown, chaffy scales and tomentum ; when 
old, less densely clothed, and then appearing glabrous and almost black be- 
tween the scales; fr. lanceolate, sometimes 1 ft. and upwards in length, pinnate ; 
pinn, pinnatifid nearly to the rhachis, lower pinnae as long as or longer than 
those next above, and with lower sides enlarged ; fr., of two sorts, ( 1) — the broader 
herbaceous^ in texture, with pinnae and segments broad, destitute of powder 
beneath, secondary rhachises and costae with a few, narrow, pale-brown scales, 
but no tomentum ; invol. distinctly separate at tips of veins, often not 
extending to apices of segments, and often without sori, (2)— the narrower 
coriaceous in texture, with pinnae and segments shorter and narrow ; rhachises 
and costae densely clothed with pale-brown to nearly white broad and also long 
chaffy scales, and tomentum, and under surface of lamina completely covered with 
white powder ; invol. broad, confluent, all round the segments, much lacerate 
ajnd ciliated. (Plate. II.) 
N.-W. P. : D. 1). But .— On the cart road from Rajpur to Mussooree, at about 4,000 
ft. altitude. 
