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species varies a good deal, but not with the size of the frond. One frond I 
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collected in Simla in 1871, about 25 in. 1. by 81 in. br., is only bipinnatifid, 
and the segments are not lobed— only slightly toothed. Another I got at 
Mashobra (Simla Region) in 1886 — matched by a frond of Strachty and 
Winterbottom’s from Kumaun — may be said to be bipinnate, i.e., there is 
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hardly any wing to the secondary rhachis in the greater part of the frond, 
though the pinnules are sessile with a decurrent base. The bipinnateness 
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decreases m the lower part ot this frond, and is quite lost in the lower two 
' m3 m to noumq m3 asqJ Irro apxnoq; jBB^oRitej^isnd 
or three 
tree pairs of pinnae, as it is towards the tips of all. This frond is 
■ ' . . . .-ft owd dpi To 2; 
1. by, 10 in. br., and 1ms a stipe 13 in. 1. The segments are distinctly lobed, 
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and the 8—10 lobes are toothed. Ihe veins are distant, one to each lobe and 
pinnate in the lobes. * ~ 1 ~~ “ " ~ 
small, — one at the 
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the pinnules. . o 
The scales of N. Schimpericmum (the Indian plant) at base of stipes are 
long, linear, in a dense mass ; higher up There are both large, broad, scales, 
with fibrillose twisted tips, and very narrow ones. AIT are always, pale-brown* 
transparent. The caudex is decumbent, and stipes tufted, but not densely so, 
and spreading. 'The fern generally gihws on steep ground, and is , -often rooted 
in the clefts of rocks ; and the fronds droop more or less. retail ■ sumhs&h 
I have seed quantities of if &hwnpmatium, if rnurpvatitm; Wall., and 
N. odontoloma , Moore, growing together, near Lahdour, but never the slightest 
90,1 oJ nna -arc Dead I) 0#?] sqbH asTooeauM— .$%*& .QL • .*! .W».M 
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i wimhm ,§f 
Abyssinia, considers it imprudent to identify them, seeh^E ,that «the l o%pe sptent 
lai^^ltcid H&ondvil The type specimens dn 
Kew, from Abyssinia, are wider below, and more compound, than any Indian 1 
' aidd 'to frrioi. koiqyd sdT t kQBL io tomelaqnS aid tii »8?&a emobbeS 
ones. 
18. N. cocllleatum, Boh (under Aspidium). if ( Lastrea ) Filix-mas, 
Rich., i N. cothlmtiim, ^Bon, Syn. Fil. 272. N. cochleatum,, Don (under 
Asjndimi), G. R. 521. Lastrea Filix-mas, L., vat. T cochleatum , Don,Bedd. 
H. B. 250 t : Plate XXX. ' aso& oi bsm&lw o-rerf Qvmft sdT 
Punjab : Cka W &«-^McDonell ; Kangra Valley Dut. E 4000', Trotter ; Simla} 
N.-W. P. : D. JJ.Dist.-~ in the Dun (Valley) 1,550' t9;31$QVye?y COlja!^Qp,..^wi 
(abundant in places T. Garh. 4-5000', Duthie, Hope; Sahdranpur Di#f.~6iwalik 
Range, on south side, MacLeod ; B . Garh. Mrs. FiBher ; K’umann^ S. & W., Hope 
Davidson, Duthie, 25-6000V 
! ‘~ ^DlSTKiB.-— Asia : N. Ind. from (ludh to BT&btan ; -Assam— Khasia ; Bengal^-Chittai 
gong, and Parasnath Mt., bp to 4000', very common. Burma— A va. Malay Pen ins. 
Clarke in Rev.), S. Ind.— -Western Mts., 2-4000' (JBedd. in H. B.). 
