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In the British Museum in a wrapper-— 44 22, qmdricmrita— quinata, India ” 
—are two old sheets (1829 watermark), without tickets, but enfaced — Pirns 
quinata , Wall, in Herb.” : also a sheet from Duthie, No. 3704 (see above) 
with 2 fronds which have only 1 pair and a terminal pinna each. And there 
is a sheet with a ticket — “ Pteris quinata , Wall, E. Napalia, January, 1818, 
Groalmulia, Loch.” A sheet from J. Smith’s herbarium — 44 Pteris bvlqumaia. 
Wall A g. mon. 25 Syn. P. quadriaurita , Hk., Nepal, Wallich, Sp. Ffl. 2, p. 
179,” suggests Clarke’s P. suMndivisa from a low level in Sikkim. 
The stipes and rhachises of this fern are pale straw-coloured to yellowish- 
brown. All the specimens I have seen have, I think, one large ear on each 
pinna of the lower pair. The pinnae are exactly opposite, and the lowest pair, 
with its ears, forms a flattened, unequally armed, St. Andrew’s Cross. 
All the Kumaun specimens, from Strachey and Winterbottom’s time, 1848, 
to Mac Leod’s, 1893, agree with Wallich’s type, and are identical in every 
respect, and seem to me quite unlike P. quadriaurita. 
7. P. excelsa, Gaud.; Syn, Fil 159 ; 0, B, 467 : Bedd. H. B. 114. 
Kashmir.—? see under P. quadriaurita. 
Punjab : Chamba— Balhousie 6000', Clarke, Ravi Yy. 7000', McDonefl, “common ” ; 
Kidln 6-8000', Coventry 1894 ; Simla Reg,— Simla 5-6000', Edgew., Bates, Gamble, 
Collett, Blanf. Trotter, Bliss ; Mahasu 7-8000', T. T. 
N.-W. P. : D , D . Did. — Jaunsur — Harianta 8000', Gamble ; Mussooree 5-6500', not 
common, Herschel, Mackinnon^, Hope; T, Dark .— Dhakara 5000', T. T., Herscbel ; 
Kumaun — Wallich ; near Nami Tal 6000', Hope 1861, Lev. 1874, Pindar Gorge 
7500»8000' Trotter ; Gori Ganga Yy. 7000', MacLeod 1893— ‘‘only one plant seen.” 
Distrib .— Asia : N. Ind. (Him.) Sikkim 8-9000', Sir J. D. Hooker ; Assam— Kbasi 
Hills, Jordon, Godwin Auden North Oachar Hills 2500', Mann ; Burma, Wallich. 
China— Szechwan Prov., Henry , Faber . Philippines. Sandwich Isles. Hildebrand , 
Heller 1895. 
Blanf ord says:— “Very rare” (in the Simla Region). “Apparently 
restricted to well-shaded spots by the margin of streams. I have collected it in 
two places at 5 5 00’ and 5800', but I have not met with it during the last 
few years, the original sites having been devastated by wood-cutters and cattle, 
or exhausted by collectors.” But Mr. Bliss has found the plant since then in 
several localities. 
Clarke thinks the Philippine station an error, and the Burma (Ava) one doubt 
ful ; but China must now be added as a habitat. I can confirm Clarke’s 
observation that the veins are not rarely 3—4 branched, i. ?■., a vein is like a 
tuning fork, each fork forking again, and occasionally these secondary forks 
unite with each other. In the decurrent bases of the pinnules or segments 
some veins spring from the rhachis and not from the costa, as occurs in many 
other ferns. On the upper side of a frond I see a short seta or gland at the 
