THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA, 
Including Afghanistan, the Trans-Indus Protected States, and Kashmir: 
arranged and name l on the basis of Hooker and Baker’s Sgtiopsis Filicum, 
and other works, with New Species added. 
By C. W. Hope. 
( Continued from page 538). 
Part III. 
NEW SPECIES. 
11, Nephrodium Kingii, n. sp.— -Plants isolated ? ; caud. erect? ; st. 
short— about quarter the length of the frondj clothed with dark brown acumi- 
nate hair-pointed scales, truncated at base ; /r. small — 6 — 10 inches 1, 2 — 3 
inches br., lanceolate-acuminate, rhachises clothed with scales similar to those 
on stipes, bat smaller ipinn. up to about 18 pairs, subdeltoid, but with the 
inferior of the lowest pair generally rather the shorter, almost sessile, and de- 
cumbent on the main rhachis, gradually narrowing to a not acuminate apex, 
cut down to a broadly winged rhachis into upwards of 10 distinct rectangular 
bluntly-rounded segments, which are toothed round the apex and lobed on 
both sides — the lobes more or less toothed according to size of plant ; texture 
herbaceous ; ven. pinuate in the segments, veinlets in triplets in the lobes 
and running into the teeth ; sori small, subcostal, one to each lobe on the 
lower veinlet ; invol . entire or irregularly lacerate, not fimbriate, persistent. 
(Plate IX.) 
Panjab : Chamba ; — . — Ravi Valley, below Salrundi 9o-l 0,000% Me Don ell 1882 ; 
Chenab Valley — Cheni Pass (Pangi side 10,000', McDonell : iu Herb.-Hort. Calc. 
Simla Reg. — above Simla, Colonel Bates. N.-W.P.: T. Garli . — moraine of Dudu 
Glacier under Srikanta 14-15,000', Duthie 1883, Nos. 386 and 394. 
Distrib.— Asit : N. E. lad. (Him.) Sikkim, Lachen 11-12,000', Hooker K. 1849 ; 
Sundukphoo 92,000', Levinge 1880 ; Jongri 13,000', Gammie 1892, No. 187 ; Thibet — 
Dungboo, and Do-tho, King’s Collector 1877, No. 4693. 
This elegant little plant was, if 1 rememher rightly, put up by Mr. 
McDouell among specimens which he sent me of my next species— N. serrato - 
dentatum ; and specimens sent by him to Gamble were named by Levinge 
N. Filix-mas , near odontoloma (meaning, I believe, N. serrato-dentatum. ). The 
segments are not nearly so much incised as those of the last mentioned plant— 
merely shortly toothed ; the stipes are shorter and not so thick, though stiffer ; 
and the rhachises are inconspicuous below, contrasting with the dark-coloured 
secondary rhachises of W. serrato-dentatum. The pinnae are blunter, and are 
never nearly bipinnate ; and the venation is not so distinct. 
The serial numbers prefixed to the New Species show their place under each 
genus in the General List (Part III), where the names only will be repeated. 
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