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Mergui, Griffith, Andaman Islands. Ceylon. Malaya. Tonkin. China — Yunnan. Cbnsan. 
Fiji. New Hebrides,— Aneiteum N. Australia — Cape York. Aft . : Caiuerun Mts. 
Eritrea, G. Schweinfurth, 1896 1 Mascaren Isles. 
New to N.--W. India ; and there not found westward of the Ganges. 
20. P, StigmOSUm* Sw. ; $yn. Fil. 350 ; 0. R. 553. NPphoMus 
stigmosu* Sw., Bedd, H. B. 328. 
N.-W. P. : T. Garhwal — 4000', Mackinnons 1878 ; below Lalnri 3-4000', Duthie 1881 ; 
Kumaun— Sarju Vy.— Gangoli Hat 3000', Major Madden ; Kali Yy. 2-3000', Duthie 
1884 ; Gola Valley 2300', Hope 1890 ; Sarju Vy. — Bageswar, T. T., 3000' S. and W., 
Trotter 1891; Sarju and Goriganga Valleys 3-5000', MacLeod 1893. 
Distrib. — Asia : N. Ind. (Him*} Sikkim and Bhotan 1-4-5000', Assam — Khasia 
2-3000' very common ; W. Manipur 3500', Clarke ; Bengal — Chutia Nagpur, Parasnath 
Mt. 2500', Clarke, S. Ind.-- -Golconda Mts. Burma — Tenasserim. Sumatra, Hancock. 
China— Yunnan, Henry, Hancock. 
21. P. fisstun, Baker ; Sjn. Fil. 351 ; C. R. 554. Niphcbolus fissus, 
B1-, Bedd. H. B. 330. 
Kashmir l fide Clarke in ‘Review’, and Trotter in Lists. 
Punjab ; Chamba— Ravi Vy. 6000', McDonell ; 5500', J. Marten 1897 ; Kullu— 
Upper Bias Vy. 5-6000', Trotter ; Simla Bty. % , Blanford : “ rare, and found only at 
levels below 5500''” ; below Simla 5500', Hope ; Simla — “The Glen” and road to it* 
Jaru-ka— Nal, Bliss 1890-92. 
N.-W. P. ; D. D. Hist.— Jaunsar, Duthie 1879, Lokar, Gamble ; “ Jaunsar, 1 ' C. G. 
Rogers ; Molta Forest, 5000', Gamble ; T. Garh , 5-8000', Gamble, Mackinnons ; 
B. Garh, Mrs. Fisher ; Kumaun — near Bagesar 3000', Vy. of Sarju 3500', native 
collector, in Herb. Hort. Saharanpur ; Gola Vy. 23-4000', very abundant, on rocks 
and trees, Hope ; Naini Tal and elsewhere 5-6500', Hope, Duthie ; near Almora 6000' 
MacLeod. 
Distrib. — Asia : N. Ind. (Him.) eastward to Bhotan, very common ; Assam— 
Khasia lC00'-5000', very common ; Manipur, Watt. S. Ind.— W. Mis. 3-8000', 
Burma — The Sh&n Hills, Collett ; Ceylon — C. Prov. Malay Penins. Java. Philip- 
pines. China. Afr. ; E. Trap. Zambesi Highlands. Madagascar. 
22. P. flocoulosum, Don ; Syn. Fil. 351 ; C. R. 554. Niphobolns 
flocculosus, Don, Bedd. H. B. 331. 
Punjab : Kanyra Vy. Hist.-- Dharmsala 6000', Trotter 1887; Simla— Edgew., and 
Madden, fide Sir J. W. Hook. 
N.-W. P. : D. D. Dist. — from 2000' to 5000' : common from south of Dehra, in 
Dehra, northward to Rajpur, and to above Jhari Pani on road to Mussooree, on trees ; 
Kumaun — 3000'-6000', very common. 
Distrib. — Asia *. N. Ind. (Him.) Sikkim and Bhotan, rare ; Assam — Khasia, up to 
4000', and Sylhet Plain. 
The description of the shape of the frond in the ‘ Synopsis ’ — “narrowed 
very gradually to both ends ” — is wrong, and subsequent writers have not put 
ifc right. Clarke says — “ Suddenly or gradually narrowed at base,” and Bed- 
dome — “lanceolate, finely acuminate, sub-sinuate, moderately attenuated and 
decurrent, or broad and unequally hastate at the base.” The frond is never 
