THE FERtiS OF NOR TH- WESTERN INDIA. 
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[I have struck out of this list Davallia pulchra , -Don, as I find that the 
common low-level, arboreal fern I and other collectors have been 
calling by that name is D. pseiidocystopteris , viz. — No. 4 , infra, 1 do 
not think D. 'pulchra grows to the westward of Nepal, though it 
seems to be very common in the N.-E. H imalaya and Assam (in the 
Khasi Hills at least), and on the Western Mts. in S. India, and also in 
Tenasserim and Ceylon.] 
4. D. psendo-cystopteris, Kunze Bot. Zeit. 1850, 68. “Fronde 
humile, submembranacea, rigidula, olivacea, glabra, breviter oblonga, 
acuminata, tripinnatitida (s. qaadripinnata) ; pinuis petiolatis, patentibus, 
oblique ovato-oblongis, obtusiusculis, inferioribus remotis ; pinnulis primariis 
petiolatis. subrhombeis, obtusis ; secondariis subsessilibus, oblique oblongis, 
pinnatisectis. sc^entis e basi cuneato falcafo-lanceolatis, longe acuminatis, 
acatissimis, subbifidis, basi mono-sorophoris ; indusio magno, ovato, acuto 
membranaceo ; stipite brevi, tenero ; rhachi universali subflexuosa, versus 
apicem marginata, parti alibis alatis, flextiosis ; rhizomate .... 
Ci/stopteris Davallioides. Kze in Utt. 184 2.” 
“ Himalaya, ausden Sendungen Fieldings, von Moricand mitgefcheilt.” 
D. pulchra. Don, var. pseudo-cysloptens (sp.), Kze., C. R. 444. Leumtogia 
pseudccystopteris . Bedd. H. B. 54. 
Punjab : Chamba—^W ; Kang r a Vy. Dist. 7’000' ; Aland i State 5500'; Simla 
Reg. 5-8000 / > f’ very abundant on trees (Blanford). 
N.-W. P. : D. D. Bfat .— Mussooree and vicinity 5-7000', everywhere clothing 
the branches of the oak trees j T. Garh . 5000' ; Kumaun 4500—11,000'. 
Distrib.— Asia : N. Ind. (Him.)— Nepal, Sikkim and Bhotan up to 11,000'. 
Assam — Kbasi Dist. 3-6000', common. 
The plant from the localities enumerated above is the common low-level 
arboreal Davallia. Specimens differ from each other in texture and cutting, 
correspondingly, perhaps, to the age and degree oi fertility of the plant ; but 
I do not think any of them are D. chmrophylla , Wall., which has been assumed 
to be D. pulchra, Don (an older name), and which is common from Nepal east- 
ward to Assam and Burma, and in South India and Central Ceylon. I have 
had great difficulty ia determining 'what this plant is, but probably it is 
Kunze’s plant, which, there are reasons to believe, was collected in the Simla 
Region. His description, which I have quoted above, is defective in that he 
could say nothing about the rhizome ; and I cannot see that the indusium (in 
my material) is large, as he said it was, but it appears on young and undamag- 
ed specimens “ ovate, acute, membranaceous.” As I found that no type speci- 
mens of Kunze’s plant existed in the Kew or British Museum Herbaria, I 
