THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 
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Duthie’s discoveries o? four stations in Knmnun, and another — adjacent*-in 
West Nepal, carry this fern much farther eastward in India than it was before 
known to grow. The gap between West Kashmir and Kumaun ought to be 
filled up. There is much variety in cutting in Duthie’s specimens, as there is 
also in both cutting and size in the European plant, of which botanists have 
made several varieties. I have a plant I gathered on the inside wall of a ruined 
stove-house, exposed to the weather, in a garden near Edinburgh, on the old 
walls of which the species was abundant, which had 80 or 100 living fronds, 
and, as pressed, occupies a fan-shaped area 11 by 8 inches. This shows what 
the plant is capable of. 
11. A. Saulii, Hook.; Syn. Fil. 21 0. A. pekinense , Hance, Syn. Fil. 
213. (See Baker in Summary of New Ferns, Ann. Bot., Vol. V., No. XVIII), 
0. R. 483 ; Bedd. H. B. 156. A. Saulii , Hk. : var. peJcinense , Hance 
Bedd. Suppt. H. B. 31. Plate XVIII. 
Kashmir. —Jhelam Valley , 2-2500', Lev. 1875, 4000', — Trotter 1889 ; between 
Rampur and Uri, “ common ; a few plants at Chakoti ", MacLeod 3891 ; Chakot. 
3600', McDonell 1891. 
Punjab : Ha mra — Dhamtaur 4500', Leo Oertel 1890 Chamba — Ravi Valley, 
near Ruk 4000, McDonell 1882 ; Kullu , Trotter (in List> 
Distrib. — Asia : Japan, Oldham. China — Szechuan, Blakiston , Mu ingay, 
Robinson ; Peking Mts., Hancock ; Ningpo Mts, Faber. 
Mr. Baker in his Summary of New Ferns, 1801, unites A. pefanense, Hance, 
with A. Saulii , Hook., saying — “ Further material shows that A. Sau(u\ Hook, 
in Blakiston’s Yangtsze, 803 (1862) is a larger, more compound, form of the 
same species {A . peJcimnse, Hance), and A . Saulii is the older name. It has 
lately been found by Levinge in the Himalaya (Chamba and Jhelam Valleys). 
I think Clarke is right as to Levinge’s locality being in Kashmir, and the 
Jhelam does not flow through the Chamba State. In the Calcutta Herbarium, 
there are two sheets from Japan, named A. sepulchrale , Hook. = A. pehnense , 
Hance, fide Baker, of which the stipes are 6-8 in. long, and the fronds up to 
10-11 in. 1. by nearly 5 in. br , — almost tripinnate. Dr. Christ’s var, latius , 
published in 1897, is quite covered by the original description of A. pekinense , 
and by specimens in the Kew Herbarium from various parts of China and 
Japan. 
12. A. Adiantum-nigrum, L. ; Syn. Fil. 214 ; C. R. 483 ; Bedd. 
H. B. 156. 
Afghan. : Griffith, in Herb. Hort. Kew. 
Trans. Ind. States : Baraul 4-7800', Harris ; 4000' Gatacre. 
Kashmir : Badrawar 5400', and Poosiana, Clarke; <c frequent 5-8000", (Cl. in Rev.) ; 
Chandfabhaga Valley 7000', Badeu-Powell 1879 ; Lolab 6000', and Rembiara Valley 
6500', Trotter ‘1888 ; Lolab— Dardpura 5-7000' : “ very common in the Lolab, on dry 
