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Other records are i — 
Punjab : Kullu — Inner Seoraj, 5000', Trotter. 
N.-W. P. : D. D. Bist. — Jaunsar, near Lokhwa, 4000', Blanf , 1886 ; near, R&jpur 
28-4000', plentiful, Hope ; Landour, 6500', Miss Parrott. — Mussoorie-Chakrata Road, 
4500', Hop q, Rumaun — 7000', Dutliie ; 4 500' Hope, Trotter, Gori Ganga Valley — 
Bugdiar 8500', MacLeod. 
Distrib .— Asia : N. Ind. (Him.) Sikkim — Pankabari 3000', Clarke, 1884 ; Assam — 
Khasi Hills 5000', frequent, Clarke ; Rajput&na— Mt. Abu, King, Duthie. S. Ind.— 
Madras Presy., Nilgiris 4-6000', Gamble. <{ So common on all the mountain ranges 
in India, 11 Bedd ., Supp. H.B. 
I feel obliged to set up this fern as a species (though the late Mr. Blanford, 
its author, latterly degraded it to the rank of a variety of C. farinosa ), because 
I tnink it very distinct, though the specimens I g^ojup here, following 
Blanford, differ considerably from each other. My specimens collected 
near Simla, in Blanford’s company, are small and not stout, and seem 
nearer his var. grisea than to the large, stout fern which is got on the lower 
slopes of the Mussoorie range of the outer Himalaya and in Fhmaun, and 
which in thickness and blackness of stipe resembles specimens from other parts 
of India ticketed C. bullosa, the stipe, however, being much more scaly than the 
stipe of that fern, and the frond longer and. narrower. The scales on the large 
form are bi-coloured, but those on some specimens of the small form are not so. 
The involucres on Miss Parrott’s Lap dour fern, gathered in September, are of 
reddish-brown colour ; and in that respect, and in general habit the plant is 
almost the same as a plant of C. grisea gathered by Blanford in the Simla 
Region in the same month. 
On the way up the Himalaya from Rajpur to Mussoorie farinosa is the only 
Cheilanthes seen for the first few hundred feet of elevation : then anceps begins 
to appear, and very soon entirely supersedes farinosa and is alone until, with a 
little of rufa, it meets the lower limit of albo-marginata. The large form of C. 
anceps is, however, met with also considerably lower down, in the Raspana Valley. 
Th6 marked difference of anceps from farinosa at once catches the eye : it is 
sfciffer, and much darker in colour, and the frond is narrowly lanceolate. The 
coat of farina on the under side is much thicker, and therefore looks much 
whiter than that on farinosa , and it presents a marked contrast to the dark- 
coloured rhachises. The colour of the frond is a dark-green. If the large 
stout form is to be put with C. bullosa , Kze., it seems to me to be all the more 
necessary to make a distinct species of them ; but the shape of the frond seems 
different in the two plants. I am inclined to transfer Blanford’s Simla, high- 
level type, and the similar small plants from elsewhere, to C. grisea. 
11. O. grisea, Blanford in “The Silver Ferns” ( Cheilanthes ) “of 
Simla and their Allies,” read before the Simla Nat. Hist. Soc., 25th June, 188G; 
