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sometimes tripinnate at base of pinnules. There seems to be an aristate 
tooth, or awn, to each veinlet; but the awns are never so long as in the 
European plant, and they therefore seem stiffer ; they are, however, really soft. 
13. A. XuetUQSUm, G. Kunze in Linnea, Vol. 10. (1835-36) p. 548 ; 
l< f 103. A. luctuosum , Kze.: costis rhachibus stipiteque fronde breviori nigris- 
centi-paleaceis ; fronde lanceolato-acuminata, bipinnata, coriacea, pinnis alternis, 
petiolatis, longe attenuatis, sursum auriculatis ; pinnulis trapezio-ovatis, sub- 
falcatis, mucronatis, basi sursum auriculatis, deorsum truncata cuneata decur- 
rentibus, arristato-serratis ; indusiis reniformibus glabris.” 
A. aculeatum , Sw., Syn. Fil. 252 ; A. Tsus-Simense, Hook., Sp. Fil. IV. 
16, t. CCXX. 
Kashmir : Jhelara Valley 8500' ; Chitapani Valley 75—8000', Trotter 1888-89 ; 
Jhelam Valley, 5 miles from Rampur 4500', MacLeod 1891; Upper Chenab Valley, 
6500', McDonell 1898. 
Punjab: Hazara Dist .— Trctter in MS. List of Punjab Ferns. Chamla .— Ravi 
Valley, Chanju 7000', and near Tisa 7000', McDonell 1882. 
Distrib.— N. Amer.— California. Asia : N. Ind. Assam — Mausmai, Griffith , 1885 ; 
Khasia— Cherra, Hk. & Th.^-Japan — Island of Tsus Sima, in Straits of Corea, 
Wilford ; Yokohama, Dicliins . 
On seeing Mr. McDonell ’s CLamba specimens I thought them quite different 
from A. aculeatum ; but it was not until many years later that I found them 
to be identical with a specimen from Natal, collected by Buchanan, which is 
ticketed P. luctuosum , Kze. Then I had the privilege of a perusal of Dr. 
Christ’s monograph on Polystichum aculeatum ; and I also saw McDonell ’s 
later collected specimens from Kashmir which were ticketed A. Tsus-Simense , 
and I wrote to him on the subject. He replied that he had got the name from 
Colonel Beddome, who, on seeing those and other specimens of Mr. McDonell’s 
Kashmir collections, wrote as follows : — “Aspidium — Upper Chenab Vy., 
— A. Tsus-Simense , Hook.; figured and described by Hooker in Sp. Filj., in- 
cluded by Baker in Syn. Fil. under aculeatum. I call it Polystichum aculeatum, 
var. Tsus-Simense ; it exactly corresponds with the Japanese specimens, l New 
to British India.” (Now, I rather think Mr. McDonell referred to Colonel 
Beddome after I had called his attention to the plant.) 
On revisiting Kew I have seen that on the cover which contains many China 
and Japan specimens of A. Tsus-Simense Sir W. J. Hooker wrote in pencil— 
“ 20. Tsus-Simense est luctuosum, Kze., not Pappe.” In the Synopsis both 
these names are given as synonyms of A. aculeatum , Sw., though jin the Sp. 
Fil. Vol. IV., p. 16, A. Tsus-Simense is given as A. No. 20, and ngured as 
such on Plate CCXX. On the Herbarium working Copy of tlje Sp. Fil. Sir 
William Hooker has written — “ If the same as luctuosum , Kze, I fear it is too 
near aculeatum. 31 On p. 19., under A. aculeatum , Sir William wjk>te, in ink, 
