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( identical with the Himalayan plant, is a later name. For Colonel Beddome’s 
description, which was written from specimens found in only one locality in the 
Nilgiri Mountains, in 8. India, and which hardly covers the Himalayan plant, 
! substitute the following, which was written many years ago : — 
P lards isolated, or united in tufts by the matted roots ; Caud. erect, short ; 
St. I — in., rarely more than I|- in., densely tufted, soft, castaneous, clothed 
at base with linear hair-pointed dark-coloured scales, upwards more or less so 
clothed, scales gradually changing upwards to soft hairs ; Jr. linear-lanceolate, 
bipiimatilid, never nearly bipiunate, 2—9 in. 1., \ — 1^ in br. ; rh. flattened, 
winged, green in upper two-thirds, the castaneous colour of stipes extending 
farthest up the inferior side and sometimes in patches ; pinn . 20-25 jugate, 
oblong with an exp mded base, or cuueate, sometimes leafy and then obliquely 
triangular and less cut, subpetiolate, blunt, costm inconspicuous, undulate later- 
ally, lower piiuue more distant, shorter but scarcely narrower at base, sometimes 
trifoliate in shape ; setjm. 3-6 jugate, having 1-6 teeth according to number of 
veinlcts, lower margins concavely cut or scooped out, lowest anterior much cut 
away ; xolour dark green ; veins immersed, obscure ; sort costal, one at the 
base of cacii segment, two or more in lowest anterior ; fr. often very attenuate 
upwards and rhachis prolonged and then rooting at tip ; setjm. sometimes all 
M'lmcate or cmarginate at apex, and there proliferous. 
Punjab: KuIIh— 7-9000', Trotter; Simla Reg. 6-9000', not common; Gamble, 
Collett, Cattell, Pdanf., Hope, Trotter, Bliss. 
M.-W. P. : D. D. Did . — Jaunsar, Barasti 7000', Gamble; Mussoorie — 6000' Eclgew., 
Dr. Bacon, Jameson’s Collr. 1850 ; 5500' — 7000', Lev. 1872, Mackinnons 1878, Hope 
1880-1895 (seen and studied yearly), plentiful in places on rocks in damp forest; 
“ CrarhivdP' Lev. 1872 ; T. Garh .— Ganges Valley 6-7000/ Duthie ; Eumaun — Naini 
Tal, by the lake-side, Hope 1861 ; Harsila, Davidson 1875 ; below Naini Tal 
5-6000' Trotter ; Dhauli Valley 10,000', Duthie 1885-86 ; MacLeod 1888. “N.-W. 
India’', Falconer. 
Distrib. — N. Amer. : “ Mexico, Mr. Consul Glennie ”5 Mexico— Rochers de 
Pedrogal, Bourgcau , 1865-66, Chihuahua — Mapula Mts., Pringle 1866, Sonora, Lloyd 
]S90. United States — Arizona: Huachucha (?) Mts., Lemmon 1882. — Asia: N. Ind. 
(Him.) Sikkim (?) Wangtu, Ilooh, fil. and Thoms. 1847. S. Ind.: Nilgiri Mts., above 
K al ha tty water tall, rare, Beddome 1864, Barliar 2500', Gamble. China — Moupin, 
David 1889; Mengtez ; Yunnan, W. Hancock 1893 : “ shady rocks, very local.’ 
I have found no difficulty in separating this Himalayhn plant from A. Jonh - 
nutn, Bcruh.; but it is not without hesitation that I come to the conclusion that 
it is the same as Beddome ’s Nilgiri plant. Beddome found his plant only in 
oue station, and he then thought it nearly allied to A. camptorhachis , Kze., 
which Baker unites with A.lunulatum, Sw. — Gamble has a dozen plants ticketed 
.4. cne/uum , which he got near Barliar, on the Nilgirjs, 2500' alt., all small 
and narrow, and with prolonged rhachises. In the Synopsis Filicum , under 
