104 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIII, 
Distrib. — Asia: Iud. (Him.) Nc'p il ; Sikkim 9-10,000', common ; Assam — Mishmi 
aud Khasia 3-6000' ; Burma— Ava. Java. Japan. China. Timor (//, 0. Forbes. 
Clarke says — ‘‘ Tufted,” but his own specimens in Kew have a creeping 
rhizome, with distant stipes, and I have never seen the plant otherwise furnished. 
The mistake was corrected in Clarke and Baker’s paper, Jour. Linn. Soc., 8th 
Aug., 1888. where the authors say — c< Rhizoma semper longe- repens, mediocre 
nec crassum, frondibus remotis ; in var. multisecta rhizoma omnino idem.” 
In Kew there is a specimen, on the same sheet with others from Nepal and 
Japan, marked by Mr. Baker — “ Wild at Bott Head, Salcombe, Devon, John 
Luscombe, Alvington, Torquay, reed. 1-72.” Tins of course must be a case of 
introduction. 
3. O. continuum, Wall, (under ChuUanthes), Cat. 72. O. japamum , 
Kze., var. multisecta (sp.), F. Henderson, MS., (Cheilantkes emtigua, Wall. Cat,, 
72, Leptostegia lucida , Don., Prod. FI. Nepal, 14), C. R. 450. 
Kashmir : Rattan Piv 8000', Trotter 1888 ; Pir Panjal 8000', Gammie 1891 : 
marked O. japonicicm var. 
Punjab: Hazara Dist., Black Mt., between Sambalpat and Nimmal 7-8000,' Dutliic, 
1888, Machpuri Mfc. 9000', Changla Gali 8000', Trotter 1890. Chamba— -Dalhousie 
7000', Clarke 1874, McDonell; Kangra Valley Dist.— Dharmsala 8000', Trotter ; 
Mandi State 6-10,000', Trotter; Kullu Edgew., Trotter 7000' ; Lahanl— Capt, Hay 
1856, inHerb. Hurt. Saharanpur ; Simla Meg. —Simla, Griffith, T. T., Col. Bates, 
Dr. Bacon, Lady Dalhousie, Gamble, Hope, Bliss and Blanf., who says — w one of the 
commonest Simla ferns, growing abundantly, on the ground, both in forest and on 
the open hill-side. It has a creeping root-stock. The range at Simla is from 6000' 
to 9000'.'* 
N.-W, P. : D. D . Dist. — • Jaunsar— Rupin Valley 4500', C» G. Rogers, Mussooree, 
6-7000', common ; T. Garh.— Aglar Valley, Duthie ; Kumaun— Jacquem., Wallich (R. 
Biink.), Edgew., S. and W., Davidson f Trotter^MacLeod. 
Distrib. — Asia : N. Ind. (Him.) Sikhim, Ilookjil. China : Viinnan, Delavay . 
Colonel Henderson does not appear to have written a description of this 
species, blit he defended it in a letter preserved in the Kew Herbarium. The 
description in Clarke’s * Review ’ is as follows 
“ Fertile frond very finely cut, often 5-pinnate : ripe capsules straw- 
coloured, not numerous : involucre remaining (dosed over the ripe 
capsules.” 
And the remarks are 
“ Frond herbaceous, hardly shining, not coriaceous. '1 his is more 
easily separated from O. japonicum type than is O . auratum , and has 
been estimated a species both by Wallich and F. Henderson, to 
whose opinion the area lends support. But if it is estimated a 
species, T do not know to which the next variety should be attached,” 
