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(5 ) Heleoptms, Brockhausen ; (6) palewum^aimtissimum, Wall, ; (7 ) Maaefcii, 
Milde; (8) glanduksum , Milde ; (9) Duricei , Milde. llooker, in his 
■A Species Filicum, * Tgays his moy iqfM F.-mas) pamllelogr. is perhaps the 
next (sic) most common in the Bast Indies, and from localities too numerous to 
be worth recording, generally in mountain and northern districts, yet by no 
means confined to them.” Of the American specimens he says— •“ All are 
true var. & parallelogrammum , Kunze, with long, criniate, paleaceous scales, 
and quite parallelogrammic close-placed segments and coriaceous fronds. One 
locality only seems to be recorded in the West Indies fpr AT. F.-mas t and that 
is in Jamaica, Dr, Morris’s ticket is : J. P. £28, from Director, Public Gardens 
and Plantations, Jamaica. This appears to come nearest to Nephrodium Filix - 
mas. In any case it is new to our collection, and so far as I am aware not 
before collected in Jamaica. Found between the Western and Middle Blue 
Mountain Peak, 7,330 ft., March 28, 1885, I). Morris, 4-4-85.” The specimen 
of this in Ivew i$ s nearer N piarallelogr. than N. F.-mas 9 but the segments are 
short, rounded and toothed. 
loaoimi mn 
c. Forma fibrillosa. 
ilmommq $ai8d 
N. Filix-mas , J^ich., var.p y ,Jibrillosg t Clarke in VReview,.* p. 520, t. 70. 
“Stipe l— -If in. ; fron$ 8—30 in., very ^narrof,. tapering. at both ends, but not 
attenuated with auricles into the stipe ; stipe and main rhachis densely clothed 
with lanceolate-linear, chestnut coloured scales ; pinnae patent, cut down to the 
midrib ; segments oblong, obtuse, serrulate at the apex, fibrillose on the surface 
beneath. North-West Himalaya, alt. 9-12,000', from Kumaun to West 
Kashmir ; very common.” 
Kashmie : 5-10,000' : common in many places. 
Punjab : Chamba—'R&vi Valley 9000' ; Kullu 6-10,000', Lahaul 12.000', Trotter ; 
* ^fooJl ftrn*f yo rrpf Pt ; 
Simla Reg “ The Chor, v Kamalhari and Hatu Mts. 96-10, 000\ 
N.-W. P. : D. D. Diet . — Jaunsar, Deoban 9000', Herachel ; T. Gtifli.-d Ganges Vy., 
Gangotri — 11-12,000', Duthie ; Kumaun — Davidson^ Duthie. 
s&O JteiM _ . l yfiTwris • , 
and 
some- 
times in distinguishing it from Jorma patentissima. The smaller size and very 
dark -coloured scales are perhaps the best characters. The degree of fibrillosity 
seems to depend on age of specimen. I have seen a good deal of this growing 
' in the Simla Region, and consider it quite distinct from N , Fttixmas. 
12. Nephrodium Kingii 
: bdostaH .'0000 JM Bin&A :v ; <J w~ r A 
is. N. serrato-dentatum n. sp.-^Plate X. (see Part^IX. 4 ;; p. M 2 of 
Wol. eaidj ,'000 t 6I-II airiiuG ; ,W at .8 f '00S t SI pubIbH i jsan —rfc^jocn 21 
Brunonianum, MstvM 
Brunonmna , Wall., Bedd. H. B. 246. m iaox. a nbmr 
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