THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 
Including Afghanistan, the Trans-Indus Protected States, and Kashmir: I 
arranged and named on the basis of Hooker and Baker’s Synopsis Filicum, and ' 
other works, with New Species added. 
By C. W, Hope. 
(Continued from VoL XIII, page 36.) 
Part III.— THE GENERAL LIST. — (co7ilimied). 
Ord. FILICES. 
Sub-Ord. III. — Polypodiace^:.— (continued). 
Germs 11 .— ADIANTUM, L. 
1. A. lunulatum, Burm.; Syn. Fil. 114 ; C. R. 452 ; Bedu. 
II. B. 82 . 
Punjab : Cliamba ; McDonell (in list) ; Kangra Valley W. 2800', Trotter j Nandi 
State 4000', Trotter ; Simla lleg. 2-4500', Hope, Blanf., Bliss. 
N.-W. P. : D. j D. Dist.; common from the valley up to 45C0' in the Himalaya ; 
Kumaun 1800' — 5800. 
Distrib. — Trap. Amer : from Mexico southward to the Organ Mts. in Brazil. 
Asia : N. Ind. (Sub-Him. and Him.) up to 4500', very common. Bengal — Chutia 
Nagpur. Cent. Prov. Cent. Ind. S. Ind, Very general on the western side, in 
the plains and lower slopes of the hills (Beddome). Burma. Ceylon. Malay Penins. — 
Perak. Cochin China. China— Hongkong. Polynesia. Tiop. Australia. Afr. : Cape 
Verde Isles, Angola, Guinea, Zambesi Land, Madagascar. 
This is one of those ferns that are so common along the foot of the Himalaya 
that one neglects or postpones collecting them. It grows even by the road- 
side in the heart of the town of Dehra, and onwards to Raj pur on the way up 
to Mussoorie. Far to the southward I gathered it in 1860 , in Bagelkhand, 
Centr. Ind., alt. about 800 '. Mr. Gamble got it in Bengal — Lohdardaga Dist., 
Mr. Clarke in Centr. Inch, and Mr. Duthie in the Centr. Provs. Mr. Clarke 
says it is plentiful in ditches in Calcutta. 
The cutting of the pinnae of this species varies much. The largest frouds 
I have from Darjiling, collected by Levinge , have entire pinnae, with only the 
marginal row of sori broken. Smaller fronds of the same gathering have pinnae 
cut down 3 to £-way to the lower edges, with one, two, or three lengths of 
sorus to each of the 5 or 6 lobes. In the Sgn . Fil, the pinnae are said to be 
Eubdimidiate ; but I should say that the costa, or main vein, of a pinna 
forms the lower edge : the veins radiate from the attachment of the petiolate 
secondary rhachis, or from the costa near it, and may be said to be about 12 
in number at the base of the pinna. They form dichotomous groups stretch- 
ing to the lobes, and sub-lobes if any, and they continually fork or branch 
up to close to the edge of the pimm . until there must be from two to three 
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