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Mr. Thompson’s specimen in Eew was nai N, calcaratum, Hook., by 
Mr. Baker, but Mr. Clarke afterwards marked it “ typical falcilobum,” which 
Mr. Baker gives as a synonym of calcaratum . The plant recently found in 
Garhwal agrees fairly well with the description in the “ Synopsis,” which is as 
follows 
M St densely tufted, stramineous, villose above ; fr. 1 ft. 1,, 3*— 8 in. 
br. ; pinnae spreading, 2-4 in. 1., f — f in. br., cut down two-thirds or 
more to the - rhachis into oblique, subfalca^e, linear- oblong, acute or 
blunt lobes ; colour dark-green ; rhachis villose ; texture villose or sub- 
coriaceous ; under side more or less villose ; veinlets 3-6 on each side ; 
s&ri medial ; invot glabrous, persKmt. Hk. Sp. 4, p. 98. N. falcilobum, 
Bk. Sp. 4, p. 108. 
Mr. Clarke does not give N. calcaratum as a species, but instead sets up 
N. dliatum , 0. B. Clarke (Aspidium ciliatum, Wall. Cat. 351) = N. sericeum ) 
J. Scott, Syn. Fil. p. 494 ; and he also gives, as a separate species, N . falcilobum. 
Hook., which he says differs from N. (Lastrea) calcarata , Bedd. F. S. I., 
t. 246, and from Blume’s Javan Asp. calcaratum , in the auricled stipe, the 
cutting, the venation, the sori, and the involucres — ie., in almost every par- 
ticular, and —it might be added, in the colour, which in N. falcilobum seems 
to be pale green. 
[No fern corresponding to N. premium. Baker, with erect caudex, 
tufted stipes, prominent glands at base of pinnae, and lower pinnae 
gradually reduced, is found in N.-W. India, so far as I know. The 
specimens in herbaria so named as having been found in that region 
all belong to the next two species, Nos. 7 and 8.] 
7. repens, n. sp*— Hope Plate VIII. (see Part II., Vol. XII, No. 3, 
p. 535). 
Add, under Disteib.— A ssam— -Shillong, C. B. Clarke No, 44652, 6—1887. 
Chain— Yunnan A. Henry 10094, presented to Eew 1900. 
8. N. xylodes, Kunze in Linnaea, XXIV. 281 (under Aspidium ) ; 
N. prolixum , Baker, 0, N. tylodes , Kze. (under Aspidium), Syn. Fil. 268 ; 
N, jnolixum, Hk. and Bk., C. R. 516. Lastrea ochthodes , Kze., var. £ tylodes . 
Kze. (under Aspidium), Bedd. H. B. 240. 
Punjab : Mandi State, near Dehlu, 5000', Trotter. 
N.-W. P.: D. D. But.'— Ridge west of Mussooree 5000', Mackinnona 1878.79. 
T. Gark .— Mantargadh 6000' Gamble 1898 ; B, Garh., Mrs. Fisher j Xurnaun — near 
Naim Tal, Wigram Money, Hope 1861 ; Almora 5500', Trotter 3891; Kot»Ganti Ridge 
6500", MacLeod 1898. 
Distbib .— Asia : N. Ind. (Him-)- Sikkim, Levinge, 1871. S, Ind.— Mts., rare 
Oeylon. 
Kunze named his plana xyiodes ; but in the “ Linnaea” two pages further 
