218 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, YoL mV, 
Distrib. — N. Amer W. Indies— -St. Vincent II, G. Smith, No. 789 (in Herb. 
Sahar.). Asia : N. Ind. (Him.), Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim and Bhotan, common : 
Assam— Khasia, 4-6000', common, Kohima and Jakpho, 65-7000', C. B , Clarke. Mani- 
pur — Keyang, 8000', Dr. G. Watt . S. Ind. — Nilgiris, &c. Ceylon. Burma. Malay*-. 
China— Yunnan, Henry 1898. Polynesia. 
McDonell’s specimen from Chamba (which I do not possess) has about 2 1 
pairs of distinct pinnae, cut down J — | to the rhachis ; pale brown scales 
on undeveloped fronds and base of stipes of old ones ; traces of shed, blackish 
hair-like, scales on rhachis ; mere traces of involucres ; pinnae hardly enlarged at 
base. Gamble’s plant from Jaunsar has about 20 pairs of pinnae enlarged at 
base by longer, rounded, lobes on both sides; Other specimens I have had 
from 20 down to only 10 or 11 pairs of pinnae besides the suddenly narrowed 
pinnatified apex. A specimen from Darjiling, which Mr. Levin ge marked as 
being typical, has stipes 12| in., frond 15 in. by 10 in., with only 13 pairs of 
pinnae which are nearly 1 in. broad. The number of sori on a group of veins 
(or segment j varies in this specimen from 1 pair, near the apex of a pinna, to 7, 
or even 9 pairs, about the middle. Five pairs seem about the maximum on the 
narrower pinnae of other specimens. 
Nephrodium hirtipes , Hook,, is Aspidium hirtipes , Blume, Enum, PL Jav., Fil. 
148 ; and it is said also to be Aspidium atratum , Wall., Cat. 380 ; but ! find that 
of three sheets in the Wallichian collection, in the Linnean Society’s Herba- 
rium, one (named A. atratum by Wallich himself) is AT. parallelogram mum, Kze. 
(iV. patentissimum, Wall.), and so is another— not named atratum by Wallich. 
The third sheet, named by Wallich “ Aspidium atratum, Napalia 1821,” is 
N. hirtipes : the specimen is 16 in. broad, but it is incomplete : one-fourth or 
one-third of the frond is missing ; there are 12 pairs of pinnae— up to 1 in. br., 
cut down £th, more or less : veins 4-5 pairs in a group ; segments with a beak ; 
scales long, narrowing upwards, very dark brown, to black high up. The vdnlets 
in TV. hirtipes are all simple and stop short of the margin : those in N. parallelo- 
grammum are all forked, and they project beyond the margin, forming 
small teeth ; and the segments are not “ beaked.” In the British Museum 
Herbarium there are many specimens of N, hirtipes named A. atratum (by 
Wallich himself ?) : none of these are from the westward of Nepdl ; and none, 
I think, are N, Gamhlei , my next species. 
4. N. Gamble!, n. sp.— Plate VII. (See Tart II., p. 533.) 
5. N. gracileseeng Hook. ; Syn. Fil. 262 ; 0, R. 513 ; Bedd. H. B, 
234. 
N.-W. P. : 7. Qarh.— Phedi, E. of Landour, 4-6000', Duthie 1881. 
Distbib .— Asia : (Him.), Nepal and Sikkim 6-8000', “not common,” C. B. Clarke; 
Assam— Griffith ? Khasia 4000', plentiful, C. B. Clarke. S. Ind .— fide Clarke and 
Beddome, Ceylon, Java, China, Japan, 
