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14 inches broad. The stipes are very erect, closely set, and densely scaly for 
some way up. The pinnae are cut down J or 4/5ths to the rbachis, and the 
segments are entire, or very slightly crenate at the apex. Don's description in 
the Prod. FI. Nepal is : — 
“ P. distant, fronde lanceolata — pinnata : primus distantibus suboppositis 
lanceolatis acuminatis altepinnatifidis pilosiusculis ; segmentes oblongis apice 
rotundatis ; imis inciso-serratis ; superioribus repandis, stipite rhachique 
semi-territibus villosis, soris remotis biserialis. 
“ Hab. in Nepa'liae alpibus, Wallich. Frons bi — v. tripedalis. Rhachis 
purpurascens.” 
There is no allusion to a rhizome in the above. Mr. Duthie once kindly noted 
down for me the localities and collector's names of the (Indian ?) specimens 
named P. distans in the Calcutta Herbarium ; and I grouped them in five forms, 
thus : — (1) Typical form , from Simla, GamUe ; Sikkim, Khasia, and Nilgiris ; 
(2) var. minor , C. B. Clarke ^ from Sikkim ; (3) var. glabrata , C. B. Clarke , 
Kumaun, R. Blinkworth , without rhizome, named P. brunneum Wall, on 
original ticket : margins of segments almost entire ; (4) var. paludosum , from 
Labaul, Khasia, Nilgiris Gamble , and Ceylon,— rhizome erect, stipes tufted ; and 
(5) var. adnata (sp.) Wall, from Dharmsala Edgeworth, Chamba C. B. Clarke , 
Girhwal 8000' Blanford, Nepal, Nilgiris Beddome , Ceylon Thivaites. Mr. 
Duthie noted that there were no type specimens of Don or Wallicb, except a 
doubtful one of each ; and that tne specimen ascribed to Don looked very 
different from the rest of var. adnata , the margins of the segments being 
almost entire. 
5. F. late-repens, n. sp., (Trotter MS.) Hope Plate XIY. (see Yol. XII., 
p. 628). 
Add . — for Jaunsar hab — Molta Range 60G0', Duthie 1896; B. Garli . 
Mrs. Fisher : pinnules entire, only toothed at points : no stipes present. 
Kumaun : Inayat, nat. collr. Sahar. Herbarium, No. 25,088, 8-1890, 
6. P. DryopteriS, D., including P. Robert ianum Hoffm.; Syn. Fil. 303; 
C. R. 545. Phegepteris Dryopieris , Linu. (under Polypodium), Bsdd. 
EL B. 293. 
Afghan : Kurram Vy., Aitch. 1879 ; Pei was Kotal, Collett 1879. 
Trans-Ind. States : Baraul— Mirga 7500', Gatacre 1895 ; Chitral , J. E. 
Youngbusband 1891. 
Kashmir ; 7-13,000', frequent ; .Gilgit — Toltion Indus, 6000', Winterbottom 1847, 
Punjab : Hazara Dist. — Kagan Vy., Inayat (Sahar. Herb, collr.) .1896 (probably 
P. Robertianum') ; Chamba State 7-8000', McDonell, J. Marten, 1882 to 1899 ; 
Kangra Vy. Dist. 8000', Harsukh (Sahar. Herb, collr.) 1899. 
N.-W. P. : T. Garhmal — Ganges Vy., 8-11,000' Duthie ; B. Garh — Dombitia Gadh 
9000', Duthie ; Kumaun 10-13,000', Duthie, Trcttcr, MacLeo:!. 
