THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 
Including Afghanistan, the Trans-Indus Protected States, and Kashmir: 
arranged and named on the basis of Hooker and Baker’s Synopsis FUicum, anri 
other works, with New Species added. 
By C. W. Hope. 
(Continued from VoL XIII, page 251.) 
Part III.— THE GENERAL IAW. -(continued.) 
Ord. FILICES. 
Sub-Ord. III. — Polypodiace^e. — ( continued .) 
Genus 13.— ONYCHIUM, Kaulf. 
1. O. auratum, Kaulf. ; Syn. Fil. 143 ; C. R. 458 ; Bedd. H. B. 9G. 
Punjab: Simla Reg.) in Herb. Brit. Mus. a sheet marked— “ Simla, Griffith,' 1 
a pair of fronds, barren and fertile, without stipes : no ticket. 
N.-VV. P. : D. D> Diet . — Jaunsar — near Road from Jumna R. to Chakrata, Mrs. J. 
Sladen 1880 ; “The Attic Farm” 1500 ? Mackinnons 1878; near bridge over Tons 
R. 1800? Mackinnons; Rajpur— above Tollbar 3400', Y. A. Mackinnon 1886, 
Hope 1887 ; Rajpur below 3000', Gamble, V. A Mackinnon, Hope; Aumaun— Griffith, 
tide Sir W. J. Hooker’s writing on sheet in Herb. Hort. Kew : there is also a small 
ticket with the single word “Kuraaon” in ink and “? v in pencil: one plant, 
all infertile ; Gorakhpur Bist ., in a well in forest, Angus Campbell 1887. 
Distrib.— Asia : N. Ind. (Him.), Nepal, Wallioh ; Sikkim andiBhotan ; Assam 
“common ” ; E. Bengal 0-4000', sometimes far from the hills, Chittagong; Burma ; 
Malay Penins. and Isles ; N. Guinea, Fitzgerald 1895; Formosa, Henry; China 
Yiinnan, Hancock 1893. 
The Gorakhpur Station seems to be the only known one between the Debra 
Dun and East Nepal or Sikkim, unless Griffith got the plant in Knmaun. A 
plant named O. aumtum , in the Calcutta Herbarium, got in Knmaun by 
Mr. A. O. Hume, is O. japonimm , Kze. In the Dun O. auratum grows of 
various sizes, depending upon situation. The situation above Rajpur was dry, 
shaly rock exposed to the sun ; and a plant I gathered there has perfect tripin- 
nate, fertile fronds, though the whole plant is only 2&" X Mr. Mackinnon 
afterwards found larger plants near that station, but in soil. Mrs. Bladen’s 
.Taunsar specimens also are small. 
2. O. japonicum, Kze. ; Syn. Fil. 148 ; C. R. 459 ; Bedd. H. B. 96. 
Punjab : Chaniba — near Dalliousie, McDonell, Bianf. ; between Chamba town and 
Kajiar 5000', “ abundant on a bank, ” Trotter ; Nandi State 5-7800', Trotter ; Kullu 
5-7000', Trotter; Simla Reg.— Simla ; the Glen, Bliss 1890 “very rare”: “ It has 
been found near Mashobra, at about 6000” (Blaof. in List). 
N.-W. P. : D. D. But. — Mussooree and Landour, 6-6000', not common, Mackinnons, 
Duthie, Hope, J. R. Reid ; “ Garhwal ,” T. T. 1845 ; T. Garh.— Thadiar 8000', Gamble. 
Knmaun — Phurka and Karim 6300', S. and \V. ; Davidson, A. O. Hume, near A+kot 
4.5000' Duthie, near Pithoragarh ' 5000', Trotter, Ramganga Valley 6-9000', McLeod : 
“ grows in dense grassy undergrowth ” 
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