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THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 
Including Afghanistan, the Trans-Indus Protected States, and Kash- 
mir : arranged and named on the basis of Hooker and Baker’s Synovitis Fill cum, and 
other works, with New Species added 
By C. W. Wope. 
{Continued from page 111 of this Volume.) 
After- Words. 
I regret that the publication of this paper has extended over a much 
longer period than I anticipated • but I now recognise that this is due 
to the method of publication I was constrained to adopt, and somewhat, 
perhaps, owing to miscalculation on my part. The Journal of the 
Bombay Natural History Society has to deal with various branches of 
Natural History beside Botany, and the tastes of the members tend to 
the study of Zoology rathe 1 ' than to that of Botany. And I must admit 
that Ferns do not present the economic interest that some other 
branches of Botany do. 
2. Parts II and III. — “New Species,” and “The General List, 55 
were written in India before 1896 ; but they have been revised from 
time to time, as further material turned up, and as views came to be modi- 
fied. Part I, Introductory, was written before the rest of the paper was 
sent to press, and a glance at it may now he taken to see how the 
scheme has been realised 
3. Mr, Duthie, the late Director of the Botanical Department, 
Northern India, continued to send me duplicates of specimens got by 
himself or his native collectors, and also of many contributed to the 
Saharanpur Herbarium by Mr. James Marten, of the Indian Forest 
Survey Department, collected by himself in the Chamba State, chiefly 
at high altitudes. Mr. Marten is a very careful collector, and his 
specimens are beautifully preserved. They include several rarities. 
Mr. Gamble also has given me many specimens collected by himself 
in the Jaunsar tract of the Himalaya, and by Mrs. Fisher in British 
Garhwal, from which latter-named district also, from low altitudes, 
several interesting species were brought by Inayat, one of the Saharan- 
pur collectors, in 1902, including Nephrodium calcaratum , Hook., and 
Acrostichmn crispatulum , Wall. The first-named of these species had 
been got in N.-W. India only twice before, more than 30 years ago, 
and the second only in West Nepal, just outside the boundary with 
Kumaon. It is the only Acrostichum in North® Western India. 
