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Kashmir : Jacquem. ; Hook. fil. et Thoms. 1848; Gilgit Did.— 8000', Tanner, 
1S80 ; Astor But.— 8-9COO', Duthie ; Sind and Jhelum Vys., Aitch., 1878 (? )}« J helam 
and Kishenganga Vys. 5(i00' and upwards, very common, Trotter, MacLeod ; 'I akht-i- 
Suliman 6000', Lev., Trotter, MacLeod; Gund 7500', Gan.mic; Ladravvan in 
Lolab, MacLeod ; BarWan 5600', Me Done 1 1 ; Kislit tear — 3500', Clark *, 1876 
Punjab ; Hazara — Kagan Valley, 5000', Trotter, 1891; Malkandi, 4500', Duthie's 
collector 1897 ; Black Mt. 5000', Oertel, 1891. Cliamba — Upper Chenab Vv. 8000', 
B den-Powell, 1879 (perhaps in Kashmir) ; Ravi Valley, 7000', common, McDonell, 
1881 ; Kullu — Sarbali Valley, Edge. ? 
N.-W. P. ; T. Garh . — Ganges Valley : Jangla 8-9000', Dnthie, 1888. 
Distrib. — Europe : in many parts of Germany, in Sw itzerland, the Tyrol, Hungary, 
Dalwatia, the Caucasus, Belgium, France, Spain. Italy, Greece. It is absent from 
Scandinavia, Northern Russia, Bohemia, and Austria 11 (Britt eft % in European Ferns). 
Lago di Garda, Austria, Levinge. In Britain, in all or nearly all the southern^ 
northern, and western counties ; “ in Somersetshire and Devonshire ic is especially 
abundant ; in Scotland it is much less frequent 11 — chiefly in the West and South- 
West ; frequent in Ireland, though local ( Britten ). Asia ; Palestine, Persia. Afr . : 
Canaries, Madeira and Cape Verd Islands ; Morocco, Algiers, Abvesinia, Cape of 
Good Hope. 
Genus 21. Actinioptbius, Link. 
1. A. radlata, Link, (for the type — Acrostichvm dichotomum , Foishk., is 
the oldest name). Syn. Fil. 246. A. diehotma , Becld., 0. R. 505. A. airho- 
tom, a , Forshk. (under Acrostic/mm), Bedd. H. B. 107. 
Afghan. : Kabul — fide Clarke in “ Review. 11 
Punjab : Delhi Dist.— “Dry rocky places at Delhi and along the Jumna 11 
Trotter in ‘‘List 11 ; Gurgaon Dist . — Outliers of Aravalli Mts. ; ‘-abundant on north 
side of Khol Mt., between Karnal and Rewari, J. R. Drummond. 
N.-W. P. : Saharanpur Dist.— Saharanpur, Dr. Jameson (in Herb. Hort.. Sahar.), 
Duthie, 1881. 
Agra Dist.: City of Agra— “ Plentifully on old walls, 8th June 1825 ” 
(ticket in Wallich’s writing ?) : on another ticket— ‘‘ 197. Asplcnium radia- 
tum— Agra, super mures, 1825. 11 in Herb. Hort. Kew ; “ Walls of City of Agra, 
8th June 1825 11 , Wallich ?, in Herb. Hort. Calc. ; Jharua near Agra, Sahar. collectors 
June 1812; Moradabad D>st.—fide Clarke in “ Review 11 ; Jhansi List.— Duthie, 1886. 
Distrib. — Asia : Mount Sinai, Arabia, Persia.— Cent. Ind. — Bagelkhand, Hope, 
1860 ; Cent. Prov., Ind.— Khandwa Dist., A E. Lincrir , very large ; Rajputana— Tara- 
garli Hill, Mt. Abu 3700', King. Penins. of Ind., in dry rocky places below 3000 ft. 
elevation ( Beddome in H B.); Maisur 10" long. Ceylon. Afr . : Angola, Upper 
Egypt, Abyssinia, Socotra, Zambcsiland, Macalisberg, Mascaren Isles. 
A. australis , Link, seems to me a different species, but it is not found 'in 
British India, unless specimens in Gamble’s collection, “ from the outer hills of 
East Ffepal, 1880/’ got by his native collector, be it Specimens or the type, in 
Gamble’s collection, from the Madras Presidency, show that the rhizome is 
_sometinoes procumbent, but with stipes very approximate . scales at base of stipe 
da-k-browm linear : scales sparsely clothing the stipe, paler, and hair-like. 
