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Panjab : Chamba. — Dalhousie, Clarke, McDonell (in List); Kullu — 7000', Trotter ; 
Simla Reg. — Simla, 5 stations 6-5000', Gamble, Collet, Blanf., Trotter, Bliss. 
N.-W. P. : D. D. Did.— Sowarna Nala, 4.500', Mackinnons 1879, P. W. Mackin- 
non and Hope 1881 ; Kumaun— near Naini Tal, 0000', (?) Hope 1861, between Dandiha 
and Karela 5-6000', Duthie 1884, Dhankuri to Khali 75-8000', Trotter 1891. 
Distbib. — Asia : N. Ind. (Him.) Nepal, Wallich (A.lcetum, Wall. Cat. 209, not 
of Swartz) ; Sikkim aud Bhotan, common. Assam— Khasi Dist. 1-5000', common. 
Bengal — Chittagong. Manipur W. 2000', Clarke . S. Ind. “ Madras Presidency, in 
all the Western Forests up to 5000' (Red dome in Handbook). Burma, Kurz. Bur- 
ma— Tenasserim ? Cey^n. Malayan Penins. and Isles, Borneo — Hose. Tonkin 
Balarsa. Japan, China— Henry, Polynesia. Afr. : Guinea Coast, Fernando Po, 
and Angola ; Nyassa Land, A. Whyte ; Mascareen and Seychelles Isles. 
Trotter calls his Kullu, and Blanford his Simla, plant — var, uda t W. S. Atkin- 
son, but I think these are merely young states of the larger plant got by Bliss at 
Simla, by the Mackinnons in the Dehra Dun, and by myself near Naini Tal. 
Parish's immature Tenasserim specimen is doubtfully this, and Kurz’s specimen 
from Burma has son much shorter than usual. 
8. A. planicaule, Wall.; Syn. Fil. 211. A. ladniatum, Don, var 
planicaule , (sp.) Hook. O. R. 482. A. ladniatum , Don, Bedd. H. B. 154 9 
in part. 
Punjab; Chamba— McDonell (in List) ; Simla Re 7 .— Simla and vicinity 5000 
and upwards, pretty common, 8 stations; Kunawar; Sirmur 1SS1. 
N.-W. P. ; D. D» Dist,; Jaunsar; Mussoorie and vicinity 4700—6500', not 
uncommon ; T. Garh.— below Laluri 3-4000', and Manraa to Bavahat, Duthie ; Sahira 
7000', Gamble; Brit . Garh., below Kinoli 6000', Duthie; “ Garhiral T. T. ; 
Kumaun 3-9000', common. 
Distbib. — Asia ; N. Ind. (Him.) Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, Bhotan. Assam-Khasia 
Hills 2-6000', “ very comrro".” Bengal— Chutia-Nagpur, Parasnath Mt. 1858. 
Manipur 6000’, Watt . S. Ind.— Madras Presidency, (A ladniatum ) “ All the West- 
ern Mts. 3-8000' ( Beddome in H. B.) ; Bombay Presidency — Mts. of Malabaria 
(Clarke in Rev.), Ceylon. Japan. China — Ningpo Mts., Faber 1885 (so named by 
Mr. Baker ; pinnae blunt.), Tinman, Delavay 1883 (segments blunt), Hancock. 
Afr. : Madagascar, Buchanan , Baron. 
Mr. Clarke says the abundant Khasia form is the type of A. ladniatum, 
Hk. Sp. Fil. iii. t. 200 A., but he does not differentiate the localities for his var . 
planicaule (sp.) Hk. sp. Fil. iii. t. 200 B. Beddome writes of “ typical plani- 
caule ” of S. India ? and “ typical ladniatum ” of N. India ; but I am not sure 
whether he means that both typical plants are to to be found in both localities. 
Typical A. ladniatum (as Hooker understood it — see his figure in the 
Species Filicum) is unknown in N.-W. India, and I consider A. planicaule a 
good species. I do not think I have seen a type specimen of Clarke’sj var. 
iepauperata , which he says comes principally from Kumaun. Plants thao 
Blanford and Trotter have named var. depauperata are only small planicaule, 
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