THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 
Including Afghanistan, the Trans-Indus Protected States, and KisuMTR 
arranged and named on the basis of Hooker and Baker’s Synopsis Filicurn, and 
other works, with New Species added. 
By 0. W. Hope. 
(Continued from page 266 of this Volume .) 
Fart III.— THE GENERAL LIST — (continued.) 
Genus 22. Aspidium, Sw. (in part), R. Br . 
Subgenus Pqlystichum, Roth . 
1. A. Lonchitis, Swartz ; Syn. Fil. 250 ; C. R. 505. Polystichnm 
Lonchitis , Sw., Bedd. H. B. 203. Hook. Brit. F. t. 9. 
Trans-Ind. States : Baraul 10,500-11,000', Harriss 1895. 
Kashmir : Jacquem, and S. & W. (in Herb. Brit. Mus.) ; Gulmarg and Sonamarg 
9-11,000', Dr. J. L. Stewart, Levinge, Trotter ; elsewhere— Gilgit, and W. & S. 
Kashmir 8-12,000', Duthie, McDonell, MacLeod. 
Distrib. — N. Airier. Greenland— -Disko Bay ; Brit. Columbia — Cascade Mts. 
5-6000' ; United States— southern shore of Lake Superior and nor thwards (Written). 
Europe— -North to Centr., more sparingly in S. Europe; Brit. Isles — N. and Ceutr. 
Scotland ; Durham, Westmoreland, and Yorkshire ; Carnarvonshire ; W. and N.-W. 
Ireland, very local. Asia : Asia Minor, Siberia, Turkestan. 
Mr. Clarke says “ The single Himalayan specimen at Kew (Jacquemont’s) 
has been marked A. lonchitis by Moore ; but others have marked it A. auri- 
culatum. Ho 0. Levinge’s example is typical A. Lonchitis P The additional 
localities in Kashmir, summarised above— ten or twelve in number — show that 
the plant is not uncommon in the western and southern parts of that State. 
The dimensions given in the Synopsis, namely, fr. 12—18 in. 1., 1 — 2 in. br., 
are exceeded in Kashmir : I have a frond from MacLeod, with narrow pinnas, 
which measures 15 in. by 3 in., and another 18 in. by 2 in. ; but there is a 
frond in his collection 28 in. in length, the breadth of which I omiuted to note. 
The pinnae are lobed : each vein after leaving the costa branches ; and in well- 
developed fronds each group of veinlefcs occupies a shallow lobe, the apex o£ 
which is a mucronate tooth on the longest veinlet ; and there are smaller teeth 
at the poiuts of the other veinlets, 
2. A. laclxenense. Hook. ; Syn. Fil, 250 ; C. R, 506. Polystichum 
lachenense , Hook., Bedd. H. B. 203, F. B. L, t. 32. 
Kashmir : Palgram 13,009', C. B. Clarke, No. 3.1051, 4 9-W6 ; Gilgit List, G-t 
15,000', Tanner 1880 ; Liddar Vy , — above Kainmal 1 ’2,000', Duthie No. 1313 L, Masjid 
Yv. 12-13,000', Duthie No. 13198, and Sonsdl NAla 13-14,000', Dutbie No. 14128- 
all m .1893, 
Punjab ; Chamba. — R&vi Valley, Cheni Pass 12,000', McDonell 1892. 
NrW. P. : T. Garh . — Damdar Vy. 12-13,000, No. *106', and Dudu Glacier Moraine, 
4-15,000', Duthie 1883 ; near Jaulea, under Srikanta, 15-16,000', No.j 397, and above 
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