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1-4000', common. S. India — “ the more hairy variety, known as coadunata , only 
is found ” (Bedd. H. B.) ; Burma. Ceylon. Afr. : Guinea Coast, Angola, Zambesi 
Land, Mascaren Islands. 
No mention is made in the Synopsis of Clarke’s var. coadunata , Wall. Cat. 
377, partly : — “ Frond thick, hairy on the rhachises, and often on the frond 
beneath,” which he says is as widely spread in North India as the typical 
N. cicutarium , and still more plentiful. I have seen no such hairy Sagenia from 
N. India, or indeed from elsewhere. Clarke goes on to say that N. coadimatum 
is a stout, firm, thick hairy frond on a short stipe, but that Wallich’s type 
sheet of Aspidium coadimatum is very glabrous, and is unfortunately 
exactly that variety which has been known in India as not var. coadunata! 
I have a specimen of this fern from Simla, a portion of a thin, light-green, 
membranous frond, with small sori confined to the long, pointed lobes, ' and 
scarcely a trace of involucre ; and involucres are hardly visible in a large speci- 
men from below Mussooree. On the other hand, in one specimen received from 
the Messrs. Mackinnon, collected near Mussooree, the involucres are persistent," 
but only T ^th in. diam. ; while in another, from the same source, they are Jth in. 
diam., and so crowded all over the frond as often to overlap one another : their 
diameter is thrice that of the sores, and they are all nephrodioid. A specimen I 
collected at 5100' alt., below Mussooree, is mounted on five 18£ ini sheets : the 
second lowest pinnae are 22 in. 1., giving a breadth of frond of 44 in., and the 
lowest pinnae are 24" X 12", and 26|" X 13", respectively. Some American 
specimens are comparatively small, and not broad below. 
Genus 24. Nephrolepis, Schott. 
1. N. COrdifOlia, Presl.; Syn. Fil. 300 ; C. R. 540 ; N . cordifolia , Linn, 
under Polypodium , Bedd. H. B. 282. 
N.-W. P. : T. Garh .— below Laluri 3-4000', Duthie 1881 ; B. Gar/i.~ 8-4000', 
P, W. Mackinnon 1881 ; Kinoli Vy. — 4-5000', Duthie 1885. Kumaun — Sarju Vy., near 
Bagesar 8-8500', S. & W. 1848, Trotter 1891 ; Sarju— Ganga Vy, 8500', MacLeod 1893. 
Distbib,— Airier. : Cuba and Mexico to Brazil and Peru. Asia : H. Ind. (Him.), 
Bhotan, up to 5000' ; Bengal — Chittagong, as well as on the hills to the south of 
Hindostan. S. India. Ceylon. Burma. Malaya. Japan. Australia and N, Zealand. 
Afr. : Guinea Coast, Zambesi Land and Mascaren Islands. 
2. N. VOlubiliS (J. Smith), Clarke in * Review ’ 541, t. 78 ; Bedd. 284. 
iV. exaltata , Schott, Syu. Fil. 301 : “a straggling, flexuose form.” Mr. 
Clarke’s description is 
“ Rhizome climbing 25 — 30 ft. high over trees, with adpressed chestnut 
scales in the short lateral distant spurs, whence spring clusters of stipes ; 
pinna? obtuse or not very acute ; venation and sori much as in N. 
exaltata. Aspidium exalt at urn, Wall. Cat. 1031, partly marked vix 
exidtatum by Wallich, Lindsaya Jaunoinosa , Wall. Cat. 154. 
JS. W. P„ Z-Kumawn— Naini TA J, Hope 1861 ; once seen. 
