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N.-W. P, D. D. 2?is£.-~Land<mr 7000', Colonel Wilmer (comm, to Mackinnons 1878) ; 
$eaFs Hill, B.of Laudour, Hope 1887 and 1895 ; T. Garh. — between Or?, and Ram- 
sarai, Duthie’s collr. 1879 ; between Betwari'and DaDgulla 6-6000' ; 7-8000', Dutbie 
3881 ; Kidarkanta ; Jodargadh WaterfafE and rocks near Suranu-ka-Ser 6000', Gam- 
ble 1898 ; B. Garh. 7-8000', Duthie 1885, and Mrs; Fisher ; Kwtnaun— Sarjn R. and 
Pass to Mohargiri, S. & W. 1848 ; Naini T&l 7000', on trees, Hope 1861 ; Goriganga 
Vy. 6-8000', MacLeod 1893. 
Distrib.— Asia : N# Ind. (Him.) Nep£T, Wallich ; Sikkim and Bhotan ; Assam — ■ 
Khasia 2000'*5000', very common, Clarke ; Kohima— Jakhpo Mt. 7500', Clarke ; Mani- 
pur 7500'. Burma— Mouimein, China — Yunnan, Henry , Yunnan— Mengtez, Han- 
cooky “ very rare. 1,1 
Perhaps the omission of localities for the type, from Beddome’s Handbook, is 
due to a misprint. None of the specimens I have from N. and W. India are 
petiolate, and otherwise they seem quite normal. At Naini Tal I used to see 
this fern growing on trees. At Mussooree (Landour) it grows in dense 
masses on a steep bank, under scrub forest, the fronds banging down gracefully. 
In Kumaun MacLeod found it growing in large overhanging masses on pre- 
cipitous rocks. I have a frond, Trotter’s No. 959, 1891, from neai* Naini Tal, 
named by him P.jimalayense, Hk., which I now think is P. juglandifolium 
var. Userialis of Clarke, which was gob in Kumaun long ago, vide a specimen in 
the Kew Herbarium. The form B. P. tenuicauda , Hk., does not appear to have 
been got in N.-W. India. 
36. P» Lehmann!, Mefct. ; Syn. Fil. 369 ; C. R. 566. Pleopeltis. 
Redd. H. B., 370. 
N.-W. P. : B. Garhiodl— near Ramri 12,000', on rocks in forest, Duthie No. 5177, 
1885 ; loc. ? P. W. Mackinnon ; Mrs. Fisher. 
Distrib.— Asia N. Ind. (Him.) Nep&l, Wallich ; Sikkim 4-8000', common, 
Clarke . Burma. China— Yunnan, Delavay y Henry. 
Duthie's plant from British Garhwal is a remarkable sport. The 
specimen he gave me is one frond, with three inches of rhizome 
sending out side-shoots. The scales are typical. The stipes is ,5| in, 1.— the 
frond 10 in. L, 8| in, br. : pinnae 5 pairs, sessile, lowest 4-J in. 1., and next 
3 pairs not much shorter : all, and the terminal pinna, have the veins irregu- 
larly prolonged, so that the lowest pair of pinnae are in places 3 in. br. : the 
pinnae are very opposite and very acuminate. There is a similar 
specimen in Kew, also from Duthie. No fertile fronds of this were 
found by Mr. Duthie. I have lately received from Mr. Gamble two 
fronds, quite typical, collected in British Garhwal by Mrs. Fisher, with 
pinnse very opposite and very acuminate. Mr. Mackinnon’s specimens want 
rhizomes ; but I have other grounds for believing this species grows in Garhwal, 
for fronds of what I could only so name grew up from among a mass of 
rhizomes of— I forget what other species — which the Mackinnons brought from 
m inner range of the Himalaya, and had in cultivation at Mussooree, about 1881. 
