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Distbib .— Asia % N. Xnd. (Him ) Nepal — Wallich ; Sikkim— -Jevdon. 
As Beddome says, this fem is nearer to A, macrocarpum than to A. fim- 
briatum , i.e. f as to cutting; but the different rhizome at once separates it 
from both ; and the smaller, often very minute, sori show that it is not 
macrocarpum. I separated, as this species, some specimens in Gamble’s Her- 
barium, from Sikkim and Bhotan, named A. macrocarpum and A. Jim - 
briatum — the smaller sori being sometimes the chief guide; and some of these, 
and also McDoneli’s from Chamba, are hardly bipinnate. One Ohamba plant, 
with fronds only 9— -10 ,/ long, is tripinnatifid only near the base, and I 
was nearly describing it as a new species. Others, again, of the eastern spe- 
cimens, are almost quadripinnate. The fern is, I think, never flaccid and 
membranous as some forms of A. macrocarpum are. The stipes and rhachises 
are wiry, though slender. The cutting is very defined and elegant : the 
sori copious from base to tip. 
As to dimensions : my specimen from Tehri Garhwal ? given me by the 
Messrs. Mackinnon, is a portion— the 3£ lowest pair of pinnae, I think— of a 
very large frond ; the width is about 20£ inches, and the second lowest pair 
of pinnae 19 inches long (each) by 4^ inches broad. The frond must have 
been 6 feet, including stipe— twice the limit Beddome gives. 
[A. procerum^ Wall, Cat. 2203 (A. utfkbrosum, Sm., var. procerwn, Syn. 
EiL 489), said by Mr. Clarke and Colonel Beddome to be very common in the 
Himalaya, from Kumaun to Bhotan, has not been got west of Nepal, that 
I can see.] 
Subgenus Diplazium, Swartz, 
33. A. longifolium, Don; Syu, Eil. 234; C. R. 478. 
Diplazium longifoiium , Don ; Bedd. H. B. 179. 
Punjab*. Chamba— McDonell, in list of Ferns identified at Kew ; not seen : 
Simla Roy., Simla and neighbourhood 45-5500', seven or eight stations, Edgeworth, 
Bates, Fielding, Gamble, Blanford, Hope, Bliss. 
M.-W. P. : D B, ZHst.— Mussooree, rare, Duthie 1877, MacKinnons 1878-79, Hope 
1881; Kuirnim — near Naini Tal, Hope 1861, Major Buckley, 
Distbib.— Asiai N. Ind. (Him.) Nepal, Wallich ; il very restricted in area and 
nowhere common" (Clarke in u Review 1 ') ; Sikkim— in Herb. Ramble., com, Levmgc, 
Manipur 6-7000', Watt. 
This is undoubtedly a Diplazium , as Diplaziums go, and Mr. Clarke has, 
since the publication of his 14 Review ”, in which he placed it under Euas- 
plenium, admitted it to be so, in the paper written jointly with Mr. Baker, 
Journ. Linn. Soc., 8th December 1888, in which it is said— a la exemplis, a 
H« Blanford communicatis , J. G, Baker pamos soros diplazif&rmes invenitit” 
Mr. Gamble has a specimen from Blandford with two or three diplazoid sori 
on it ; and 1 have two or three fronds from Mr. Bliss on which doable sori are 
