254 JOURNAL , BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Yol. XV. 
THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 
Including Afghanistan, the Trans-Indus Protected States, and Kashmir: 
arranged and named on the basis of Hooker and Baker's Synopsis Filicum , and 
other works, with New Species added. 
By C. W. Hope. 
( Continued from page 749, Vol. XIV.) 
Part III. — THE GENERAL LIST — ( continued ). 
Genus 26.— POLYPODIUM, L. 
Subgenus Phegopteris, Fee. 
1. P. erubescens, Wall. ; Syn. Fil. 306 ; C. R. 543. Phegopteris 
erubescens , Wall, (under Polypodium), Bedd. H. B. 289. 
Kashmir : Basaoli, 5500', Clarke 1876 ; MacLeod 1891 : “ mouth of gorge near 30th 
milestone, in very wet soil, 6-8000'.” 
Punjab: Hazara Fist . — Siran 'Rarnge,_ coll. Inayat, Sahar. Herb, eollr. 1899 ; 
Chamba State, McDonell, J. Marten 1898, Kullu— frr8000j Coventry 1894 ; Simla 
Reg.— Edgeworth. Bates : near Simla 5-6000', and Mashobra 7-8000', Blanford ; “ at 
the bottom of some of the deep valleys below Simla, where it is pretty common. 
My highest elevation is about 5500' 11 ; Sirmur, T. Thomson. 
N.-W. P. : B. B. But. — Jaunsar 4500', C. G. Rogers ; Mussooree 4-6000', by water, 
not uncommon ; T. Garh.— Phedj 4-5000', and below Laluri 3-4000', Duthie ; 
B. Garh.— Mrs. Fisher ; Kumaun — R. B. 1827, Wallich type specimen ; Ramganga 
R. and Karim 6200', S. and W. 1848 ; Naini Tal 55-6000', Hope 1861 ; Davidson, 
Trotter ; ridge above Bageswar 6000', MacLeod 1893, 
Distrib. — Asia : N. Ind. (Him.), Nepal, Wallich Sikkim ; Assam — Khasia 3-7000', 
“ somewhat rare.” Malay Penins, and Isles. China — Yunnan, Belavay 1886, 
Lowest pair of pinnae deflesed. Stipes and rhachises not always pink : 
sometimes pale-yellow or straw-coloured. Grows in wet ground below springs, 
or by the sides of streams — the fronds bending over the water, and attains a large 
size, 10 ft. long, including the long stipes— if my memory serves me rightly as 
to Naini Tal specimens. A Chamba specimen has pinnae 13i in. 1. by hr. 
It grows 8 ft. high in Mussooree. 
2. P. aiiriculatum, Wall. ; Syn. Fil. 306 ; C. R. 543. Phegopteris 
auriculata , Wall, (under Polypodium ), Bedd. H. B. 290. 
Punjab : Chamba State— McDonell ; Simla Beg. — Edgeworth ; near Koti 6000', 
Gamble 1878 ; Samal Yy. (below Simla) 4500', Blanford: “very rare in the neigh- 
bourhood of Simla. I have met with it but once ” ; Simla — several stations, 57-6000', 
Bliss 1890-91 and 92. 
N.-W. P. : B. B. Bist.— Mussooree, King, in Herb. Hort. Sahar. ; B. Garh . 4-5000'? 
Duthie 1885 ; Kumaun— Naini Tal, Hope 1861 ; Goriganga Vy. 6500', MacLeod 
1893, pinnae very narrow : u grows almost in beds of streams, in dense shade.” 
Distrib.— Asia : N. Ind. (Him.), Nepal, Wallich 1821 ; Sikkim and BhofcaD, 
5-8000': “ plentiful about Darjeeling” ; Assam — Khasia 5000', Hock. fil. et T. Thom- 
son. Java : JUe Clarke. China— Yunnan, Mengtze 6000', Henry. 
