THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 
Including Afghaniston, the Trans-Indus Protected States, and Kashmir : 
arranged and named on the basis of Hooker and Baker's Synopsis Filicum , and 
other works, with New Species added. 
By C. W. Hope, 
(Continued from page 127 of this Volume .) 
Part III.— THE GENERAL LIST. — ( continued .) 
28. Asplenium scllimperi, A. Br. ; Syn. Eil. p. 489 ‘ Blanford in 
Journ. Asiat. Soc. ? Bengal, Yol. LYII, Part II, No. iv, 1888. A. fihx-femina , 
Bernh., var. 8 (c. C. B. Clarke’s vars.), Schimperi (sp.), Mong. ; Fee, Gen. 
Filic. (Polypod), p. 187, Clarke et Baker, in Journ. L. Soc., 8-12-1888. 
Athyrium schimperi, A. Br., Bedd. Suppt, H. B., 36. 
Punjab ; Hazara — Tbandi&na 8500', Trotter. 
KASHMIR : Basaoli 6000', Clarke No. 81595, 28-9- , 76 ; Rattan Pir 8000', Trotter. 
Punjab : Chamba— Kaji&r 7000', Clarke No. 24038, 1874 ; 7-8500', MeBonell ; 
6-9000' J. Marten, 1897 ; Simla Reg.—T. T. Bates ; Simla and along the ridge 
eastward 3-10,500', common. 
N ,-W. P. : D. D* Hist. — Jausar— Duthie’s Collector; Mussooree and r Lan dour 
5- 7000' and upwards, very abundant ; T Garh. 8-9000', Duthie, Kumaun — 
6- 11,000', common. 
Distrxb.— Asia : N. Ind. (Him.) Sikkim— Yakla, T. T. ; Darjiling 7200', Levinge, 
Gamble. Centr. Ind.-— Rajputana— Mt. Abu, Duthie No. 6794, 1887. 
The Messrs. Mackinnon were, I believe, the first to hint that -this fern was 
found in India, for in 1879, on getting the second edition of the “ Synopsis 
Filicum % they thought that, from its widely creeping rhizome, the fern 30 
common in Mussooree must be A . schimperi which was therein described, and 
they named their specimens accordingly. In Mussooree tigs fern grows in 
large beds. Some years later I mentioned the Mackinnons ? opinion to Mr. 
Levinge, and I believe he and Mr. Blanford agreed it was correct, and worked it 
out when they retired from Government service and went home. Hence, prob- 
ably, the entry of Simla as a habitat, on Blanford’s authority, in Clarke and 
Baker’s paper in Journ. L. Soc., 8-12-88, though why Mr. Baker should have 
given in and withdrawn the species he admitted in the second edition, “ Synopsis 
Filicum I know not. These authors say, under A. filix-femina 
« Adde var. 8. Schimperi, sp. Mong. , Fee, Gen. Filic. (Polypod.), 
p. 187 ; rhizomate horizontali elongato. 
u Simla, H. Blanford. 
“ Exempia, a H. Blanford communicata, cum Abyssinicis omnino con- 
gruunt ; H. Blanford autem exempla misit alia quorum rhizoma 
abbreviatum stipifeibus contiguis.” 
