THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA.. 
Including Afghanistan, the Trans-Indus Pbotected States and Kashmir 
arranged and named on the basis of Hooker and Baker's Synopsis Filscum , and other 
works, with New Species added. 
By C. W. Hope. 
{Continued from Volume X 111, page 671.) 
Part HI.— THE GENERAL LIST — ( continued). 
20. A. maCPOcarpUm, Blume ; Syn. Fil. 227 and 489 ; C. R. 488. 
Athyrium macrocarpum Bl., Bedd. H. B. 165. 
Punjab e .-—Chamba i Chatri Forest 7000', McDonell-; 5-9000', J. Marten; Simla 
Beg.—" Syree" Edgew ; Simla 56-7000', seven stations, Gamble, Bliss, Blanf,, Trot- 
ter ; Bhajji State, Bliss. 
N.-W. P. ; D. D. Dist.— Sowarna Nala 4-5000', Mackinnons ; Brit. Garh — abpve 
Guinji 9000', Duthie (once) ; Kumaun — Binsar and Pindar 7-7500', Strachey ; ne*r 
Naini Tal, Hope 1861 ; Gori Valley 7-8000', Duthie 1884 ; Dhankuri Pass, Trotter 
1891 ; Shama 8000', Gori Ganga Valley 8,000'— 11,000', Rachpula Pass, 6760' 
MacLeod 1898. 
Distrib,— Asia : N Ind. (Him.). — Sikkim and Bhotan 2-9000', very common 5 
Assam— Khassi Hills 2-6000', very common. S. Ind.— “ very common on the W. 
Mts. above 8000'" ( Beddome ). Ceylon, Burma, Malay Penins, and Isles. N. China- 
Shantung Dr. Maingay. Japan. 
Beddome and Clarke do not mention this species as being found to the 
westward of Garhwal. Some of the Simla and Kumaun specimens have been 
ticketed var. AtJcinsm, Clarke, and being small and sharply cut look distinct ; 
but there are intermediate forms of all sizes and textures. MacLeod’s specimens 
from the Rachpula Pass, Kumaun, are large, tri pinnate, stiff, with very little 
lamina in the frond : possibly they are A. foliosum, Wall. (No. 32, infra) y with 
son larger than usual. Blanford says of the type, at Simla—* 4 very rare, I have 
never met with it myself. But it was collected last year by a Simla resident a 
little below the Simla bazar, I believe, about 7000', or rather lower.” And of 
var. AtJcinsoni he says — ‘ - also very rare. I have found it only at the Chad- 
wick Fails at 5820 ft., and not at all during the last two or three years ” In 
1886 Mr. Bliss gave me a specimen collected by himself in Simla : this habitat 
was new to Mr. Blanford. Mr. Bliss’s diligence since then has proved that A. 
macrocarpum is to be found in several places all over Simla. Much of the 
N.-W. Indian material is very simply cut and membranous, and looks very 
different from the stiff er and mom compound N.-E, Indian plant ; but the sori 
are always much the same. Clarke's variety Upmnata, from Assam, I should 
make a separate species. 
148 
