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has broad pinnae, and, as rarely, a sterile frond, whioh nonnally has broad serrated- 
edged pinnae, has some patches of sori on it. The rhizome is creeping : stipes 
approximate, but in progressive order, not tufted ; and the plant forms large 
beds. 
3. P, digitata, Wall. Cat. No. 91. P. stenophylla , Hk. and Ur., Iu. 
Fil, t. 130. P ter is erotica , L., & 9 P. stenophylla , Hk. and Gr., Syn. Fil. 154. 
Pterib pellacida, Fresh, var. stenophylla (sp.), Hk. and Gr., C. R. 463 ; Redd , 
H. B. 107 (as Clarke). 
Punjab : Chamba ; McJJcmeU in MS. List of Chamba Ferns identified at Kew ; 
Simla Reg . — M ashobra , 7000', below Sipi (Sibpur) 5500', Bliss, 1890, 1891, 1892. 
N.-W. P. : D. I). Mussooree, not uncommon, 5-6000'; near Jharipani 1800' 
in quantity, Hope ; in the Ddn in several places from below 2,500' to 3,000', Hope, 
Gamble ; T. Garh,, Lev. 1872 (named by him P. daetylina, Hook.); Mussooree and 
Chakrata Road, Hope ; Kuniaun — Bageswar 3000', S. and W. 1848, Trotter 1891 ; 
Sarju Valiev and elsewhere, “grows in dense shade,' 1 MacLeod 1893. 
DisTRiB.-~da<a : N. Ind. (Him.) Nopal. 
As I have already stated, under P. cretica , I consider this fern quite distinct 
from that species, and also from P.pellmida. I therefore give it as a separate 
species, and Wallich’s name, F J . digltata, being the older, must hold good. 
Wallich’s lithographed catalogue, which, on account of the wide distribution 
made of the plants enumerated in it with lithographed tickets cut out of it, is 
held by the Kew and other authorities to be equivalent to publication, is dated 
(the Preface) 1st December, 1828. The ** leones Filtcum ” of Hooker and Gre- 
ville, in which the plant was described and exactly figured, was published in 1831. 
Synonyms therein given are— Pteris stmopnyiui, w allich MSS., 1829, and P. 
angusta, Wall. MSS. 1825 (non Bory). The habitat cited is- “inNapalia, 
Wallioh, 1818,” and it is remarked — * 4 Nearly allied to Ft. Iceta of Wallich’s 
MSS. (from Nepal) and the European Pt. cretica ; but it may be known 
in both by its quite simple pinnae and the entire margins.” The entry in 
Wallich’s catalogue is “ Pteris digit at a, Wall in Herb. 1823, Napalia, 1820.” 
Some specimens in the Kew Herbarium are named “ P. digitata , 
Wall.” in Wallich’s own handwriting, and 2 sheets have tickets of Wallich’s 
P. angusta , Wall. 1818, but none are n arked P. stenophylla . The name 
adhered to in the catalogue, P. digitata , must be accepted. P. iwta, Wall, is 
P. cretica. 
Mussooree — unless some still unknown place in Nepal is — appears to be the 
headquarters of the species, and in several localities there and in the neighbour- 
hood it is plentiful It often grows at the foot of and under rocks and cliffs, 
in shady places, but iu single plants, and never in dei.se clumps and beds 
p, cretica often does. The longest and most upstanding plants 1 have seen 
