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rum t C B. Clarke, C. R. 533 (Linn, under Polypodium; Sunw. der Aapidium ). 
Trans.Ind. St ‘.tbs : Swat — below Laram Pass, 4000'. Gatacre 1895. 
Punjab: Hazdra Dist. — Trotter in Lists; Siran Vy., Inayat, collr. for Sahar. 
Herb. 1896. Chamba State — McDonell in List and J. Marten; Kangra Vy. But. 
\V. t 25-3000', Trotter ; lloshiarpur But* — Aitch.; Jalandhar , Aitcb. ; Simla Reg . — 
Simla and vicinity — not met with above 8000', but common in the deep valleys 
at45(*0'and below 11 : Blanford in List. 
N.-W. P. : D. D. List. — Jaunsar 3000' and lower, confmon in the Dehra Dun 
1-3000'; T. Garh. near Bhatauli 4500', Hope; B. Garli. Mrs. Fisher. Kumaun — 
Almora 4600', Hope; “ Kumaun, M Davidson 1875 ; Gobi Vy. 36-4000', Bope ; 
Gorakhpur Dist. — Nichaul (in a well), A. Campbell. 
Distrib.— : — C uba and Mexico to Peru and Brazil. Asia : Himalaya 
and S. India; China -Hong Kong. Australasia : N. S. Wales and N. Zealand. 
Afr. : Macaronesia, Guinea Coast, Cape Colony, Mascaren Jsles. 
Mr. Clarke says this species is very little variable, considering its extensive 
range. There is, or was, close to Dehra a remarkable sport, wh’oh besides 
forking, sometimes several times, has a tendency to become distinctly bipin- 
nate, and when so is often soriferous. Such fronds were found on plants 
producing also normal fronds ; and the spoiling seemed to be luxuriance pro- 
duced by moist rich soil in a ditch, used also as an irrigation channel, with 
dense shade overhead. I have seeu plants with similar tendency on the slope 
of a canal cutting near Dehra. I gathered many plants and fronds of this from 
the first-mentioned station, but never got a frond wholly bipinnate. Had I 
found a plant with only bipinnate fronds, I might have been tempted to propose 
a new genus or subgenus— there being no bipinnate Eumphrodium that I know 
of. In the Calcutta Herbarium there is a specimen of a similar sport from 
Sikkim, 1873. ^ 
30. N. papilio, n. sp. — Plate XII. (see Part II., Yol. XII., p. 625). 
Add, to localities : — T. Garh ., Mantargadh 4500', Gamble, 27413, 
1 0-*98 ; B. Garh ., Mrs. Fisher, * 
31. N. oecultum, n. sp.— Plate XIII. (see Vol. XU., p. 627). 
Subgenus Sagenia, Presl. 
32. M. eicutarium, Baker ; Svn. Fil. 299 ; C. R. 539. Aspidium 
cicutarium , Sw., Bedd. H. B. 220. 
Punjab ; Chamba State— McDonell, in List ; Kangra Vy. Dist. W.— 3000', 
Trotter ; Nandi State , Trotter 1887 ; Simla Reg.— below the tonga road, 8 miles 
from Simla, Bliss 1892 : new to the Region.; not in Blanford’s List. 
N.-W. P. : B. B. Dist.— The Dehra Dun and South slope of Himalaya, 15-5100', 
common; T. Garh.— Ganges Vy. 3-4000', Duthie ; B. Garh , Mrs. Fisher. Kumaun 
Valley of the Sarju 4,000', R. Blink., in Herb. Wallicb, 3500', S. & W. j .Naini 
Tal, Hope 1861 ; Davidson 1875 ; Kali Vy. 3-4000', Duthie 1884 ; Cjrola Vy. 2500' 
Hope 1890. 
DlSTRIB .— A mer. \ Cuba and Mexico, southward to Brazil and Peru. Asia : N., 
Ind. (Him.), Sikkim and Bhotan ; Assam , Bengal- Chittagong, Chutia-Nagpnr 
