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having very dark-coloured scales which extend some inches up the stipe ; but 
the rhachis and costa are not setulose, and there are other material differences. 
These five N.-W, Indian specimens agree generally with the bulk of material 
in herbaria which is named A. nigripes, but which seems to me not to belong 
to Blume’s plant ; and I leave them here only to keep a place ope n for the 
species which has yet to be described and named. I cannot find a place for 
them under any other named species. They are— 
1. Punjab : Hazdra Dtst .— Changlagali 7600', Trotter jno. 547, 1890. 
2. Kashmtb : Gulmarg 75-8000', Trotter 1888. 
3. & 4. Punjab: Chamba, McDonell ? Simla Region— ridge east from Simla. 
8300', Hope 1886. 
5. N.-W. P : j5Ttf /naww—Gori Ganga Valley— Bugdiar 10500', MacLeod 1893. 
22 . A. tenellum, n. sp. Allantodia tenella , Wall, in Herb. 1821, 
under Asplenium tenuifrons , Wall. Cat. No. 206. Plate 1Y. (See Part II., 
p. 529.) 
23. A. tenuifrons, Wall. Cat. 206. A. tenuifrons , Wall., Blanford in 
Joum. Asiat. Soc., Bengal, 1888. A. Filix femina, Bernh., Syn. Fil. 227, 
A . Glarkei , W. S. Atkinson, MS., Cl. Rev. 489. A. nigripes , Mett., var. 
0 Glarkei , Bedd., Bedd. H. B. 166. A e nigripes , Mett., var. tenuifrons % 
Wall., Bedd. Suppt. H. B. 33. Plate XXI F. 
The following is Beddome’s description of this fern, given in the Supplement 
to his Handbook. Except in two particulars — “ very like the type ”, and— 
“ n ot rooting at the apex ” — it applies to the plants I call A. tenuifrons , which 
are the same as Wallich’s tpye specimens in the Linnean Society’s Herba- 
rium : — 
Very like the type ” (A. nigripes) “ but fronds gradually attenuated 
towards the base, intermediate between the type and Glarkei , not 
nearly so narrow or elongated as the latter, and not rooting at 
the apex ; the channelled secondary rhachis, the channelled midrib 
of the pinnae ” (pinnules ?), “ and sometimes the veins furnished 
with weak setce on the upper surface, as in the type and in Clarkei 
(which distinguishes this species easily from some of the varieties 
of Filixfemina). Referred in the synopsis to Filixfemina, and 
by Clarke as a synonym of Glarkei . Considered as a species by 
some pteridologists.” 
Pan JAB : Chamba.— Kalatop Forest 6000', McDonell ; KuJlu 6-7000 Trotter ; 
Simla Region— Simla 7000', Hope 1871 and 1886, at the same station ; Gamble 
6000', 1878 ; 55-6000', Blanford 1886 ; Trotter 1887 ; Bliss 1810-92. 
•N. W. P. ; D. Di&t *— Jaunsar 5-8000, 1894 ; T. Gam , 7000', Mackinnons 1878; 
7500', Gamble 1893 i-Kumaun, Davidson 1876; 4-7000', MacLeod 1893, 
