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Provinces. It appears to be found all over India, where circumstances are 
favourable. Shade and permanent moisture are essentials ; and limestone is, 
I think, preferred. 
5. A Wattii, Baker, in Journ. L. Soc. XVIII, 881, t. 14* a, figs. 
1 and 2. A. Levingei , Baker, Ann. Bot, Vcl. V. No. XVIII. A. Capillm- 
Veneris , L., var. Watt 'd , Bedd. Suppl. H. B. 18. 
Punjab : Chamba — Pangi, Gr. Watt, Cbenab Valley, Pangi 8000', McDonell, 1882 ; 
Kalla— 75-10000', Trotter, 1887. 
Distrib. — Asia : N. Ind. (Him.); Sikkim — Chingtam (or Chintang, or Ching- 
tang) alt. 3,000', Levinye and his collectors; S. Ind. — (Nilgiris), Leech Falls, 
Ccmoor K., Lev. 
Baker’s description under A. Wattii is the more detailed, but when analysed 
It does not seem to differ much from his later and shorter description of 
A. Levingei , of which plant I have seen and also possess very good specimens. 
I must have long ago seen McDonelPs and Trotter’s specimens from Chamba, 
but I can find no notes of them. A. Wattd is the older name, and, therefore, 
as I think there is only one species here, I put all the specimens, whether from 
the Punjab, Sikkim, or the Nilgiris, under this. The Nilgiri specimens 
I found in Gamble’s collection, in the A. Cap. -Yen. bundle. Colonel 
Beddome, in his Suppt. of 1892, says that Mr. Baker described A. Wattii 
from some small poor specimens, and he gives both that name and A. Levin get. 
Baker, as synonyms of his A. Cap.— Veneris, var. Wattii, saying that copious 
specimens from both Sikkim and Chamba prove that Mr. Baker’s (two) 
supposed species belong to the same plant. I add the Nilgiris as a habitat for 
one or other. Beddome gives a very detailed description of his var. 
Wattii of A. Capillus-Veneris , with which I find no fault ; but I may remark that 
it is remarkable that a “ slight variety,” “as he calls it, of a common fern should 
require so minute and lengthy a description. According to this the variety 
seems to differ in every particular from the type. I see no grounds for reducing 
this fern to *a variety of A. Cap.- Veneris. The superior pinnules on 
all the pinnae of A. Levingei seem the larger. Dr. G. King has recorded on a 
sheet of A. Levingei , from Sikkim, in the Calcutta Herbarium, that the scales 
of the rhizome are broader than the corresponding scales on A. Cap- 
Veneris. 
, 6. A. setMopiCUm, L. ; Syn. Fil. 12-3 ; Bedd. H. B. 83. 
Afghan. : Karra m Valley — Aitch., 1879, No. 12G5 in Herb. Hort. Saharanpur. 
Distrib. — Amer : from Texas and California southward to Valparaiso and Monte 
Video. Europe : Spain, G. McLcavy, 1860. Asia : S. Ind. — Nilgiri and Pulney 
Mts. at t'he higher elevations ; Ceylon. Australia— Temp, and Trop ; N. Zeal. 
Afr.: Cameroon Mts. at 7000', Abyssinia, Zambesi Land, Natal, Cape Colony, Bour. 
bon. Madagascar. 
