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specimen of the last-mentioned fern, from below Haripur, near Simla, at a 
low level I think, might almost be transferred to N. pandum 
I give the “ distribution 55 to Sikkim with hesitation, as the stipes of Sir 
Joseph Hooker’s specimens are incomplete, and there are more veins^m a 
segment than the N.-W. Indian specimens have. Of these (?) Mr. Clarke 
sa y g _“ Sir J. D. Hooker collected at Lachen in Sikkim, alt. 9-10,000', a 
fern which seems a luxuriant form of pander 
18, Nephrodium Blanfordii, n. sy.— Plants isolated ; caud, 
suberect ; st. in a tuft, generally short, wiry, densely clothed at I ase with 
long narrow bright chestnut scales, and higher up with broadly, ovate, acumi- 
nate, and lanceolate-acuminate, particoloured scales, both sorts truncate at 
base ; fr. 1—2 ft. 1., 6" — 12" br., lanceolate, truncate though somewhat 
narrowed at the base, bipinnate ; main rhachis clothed with lanceolate-acumi- 
nate, particoloured scales, mixed with fibrillae : secondary rbachises fibrillose ; 
pinn. about 25 pairs, distant, but not more so towards base of frond, patent, 
linear-acuminate, broadest at base, cut down to a narrowly winged rhachis into 
12—14 pairs of sessile broad-baoed pinnules set widely apart, having a conflu- 
ent acuminate toothed apex ; pinnl. oblong, bluntly rounded, divided more or 
less deeply into 4—6 slightly-toothed lobes ; texture herbaceous ; ven, costa of 
pinnule undulating and branching into the lobes ; veins branching into 3 — 4 
veinlets in the lobes ; sori — one on each lowest superior veinlet of a group, near 
the costa, confined to upper part of the frond. (Plate XI.) Nephrodium 
{ Lastrea ) remotum , Blanf. in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LVII, Part II, 
No. 4, 1888. 
Kashmir : Nagmarg and Sonamarg, S5-9000', Trotter 1888. Punjab: Hazara List. 
—Kagan Valley 94-10.200', Dutbie's collector 1896-97 ; Dunga Gali 7-7500', Trotter 
1889 ; Chamba 6 >00', J Marten 1897 ; Simla Reg.-— Ridge east of Simla, Kamnlhori 
Mt. 9500', Blanford 1885 ; Common about NSgkanda at elevations between 8300' 
and 9500'; N&gkanda to Bagi 82-8500', Hope 1886 ; Bi«aliir— Sdeeling 9000' 
Lace N.-W. P. : T Garh, — Ganges Valley above Jhala 11-12,000', Dnthie 1891. 
I give the fern entered in Blanf ord’s List as Nephrodium remoti m as a 
synonym of N. Blanfordii , because, having received from him specimens named 
remotum , which are exactly the same as those I collected in the same locality, 
at about the same time, I know that in his paper of 1888 he wrote of the same 
fern as I now do. But the plant is in no way near N. remotum , Hook, (not of 
Clarke, as Mr. Blanford quotes it), and must therefore be re-named. Mr. Blanford, 
who, when he wrote, had not, I believe, much studied European ferns, said— 
“ 1 adopt Mr. Clarke’s name for this fern, without implying acquiescence in 
the view that it is identical with the European prototype.” He had 
previously, under his No. 66, N. Filix-mas , var, marginata y Wall., said that 
