THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN TND1A, 
Including Afghanistan, the Trans-Indus Protected States, and Kashmir: 
arranged and named on the basis of Hooker and Baker’s Synopsis Fillcum, 
and other works, with New Species added. 
By 0. W. Hope. 
( Continued from Vol. XII , page 633.) 
Part III.— THE GENERAL LIST. 
Ord. FILICES. 
Sub-Ord. I. Gleicheniace^b, hr . 
Genus 1. GLEICHENIA, Sm. 
Sub-genus Mertensia. > 
L G. dichotoma, Willd. ; Syn. Fil. 15. G. linearis , 0. B. Clarke in 
0. R. 428. 6r. linearis , Bunn., under Polypodiura, Bedd. H. B. 4. 
N.-W. P. : Kumaun — 35-6000', S. and W. ; Davidson ; Askot, common 4-5000' 
Dutbie ; 6000' Trotter ; 7500’ MacLeod. 
Distrib. — Asia : N. Ind. (Him.) — Nepal, Sikkim, and B notan 4-7000'. Assam— 
Dehing R. ; Khasi H ills 5000', “common. 1 '* C. B. Clarice ; Sylhet. Centr. Prov. — 
Pachmarbi, But hie. Centr. Ind., S. Ind. and Ceylon : mountains up to 6000'. Burma : 
Tenasserim, S. Andamans. Malay Penins. and Sumatra. E. Timor, H. O . Forbes , 
an erect fern. 11 
Scandent over other jungle, sometimes for several hundred feet, often 
root big (Clarke). Probably the fern said to form, in Kumaun, jungle 
difficult to penetrate ; but see above as to the habit of the plant in Timor. 
Sub-Ord. II. Hymenophyllace^:. 
Genus 2. HYMENOPHYLLUM, L. 
1. H. exsertum, Wall. ; Syn. Fil. 58 ; C. R. 436 ; Bedd. H. B. 30. 
N.-W. P. : T. Garh. — 7-8000', P. W. Mackinnon ; Brit. Garli. 9000' Dutbie ; 
Kumaun 6-8000'*, S. and W., Hope, Duthie, J. R. Reid, Trotter. 
Distrib. — Asia : N. Ind. (Him.)— Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhotan. 4-9000', very 
common eastward. Assam — Khasi Hills 2-5500', common ; Manipur, Clarke , Watt. 
Centr. Prov3., very common (Bedd.). S. Ind.: W. Ghats, Madras Presidency. Burma: 
Tenasserim. Ceylon. China : Yunnan. 
2. H. polyanthos, Sw. • Syn. Fil. 60 • C. R. 4S7 ; Bedd. II. B. 31. 
N.-W. P. : Kumaun — Dwali and Namik 8-9000', S. and W. ; Pindar Gorge 7-flOOO 
Trotter. 
Distrib.— 1 Widely diffused throughout the Tropics, and a little beyond them, both 
north and south 11 Amer .: from Cuba and Jamaica southward to Brazil, S. Chili, and 
Juan Fernandez. Asia : N« Ind. (Him.)— Sikkim and Bhot&n 1000-12,000', abundant 
eastward. Assam— 2-6000', “ very common, 11 Clarke; Kohima 9000 \ Clarke. S. Ind.: 
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