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1. Si, rack, and surfaces naked ; text. herb. lunulatum. 
Loc. Himal. to 4,000 ft. on banks. Assam. Sylhet. Nepal. 
Kumaon. Rajpore. Kalka, 3 miles up roads. Banda. Calcutta. 
2. St. tomentose, rack, and surfaces villose ; text, coriaceous. 
caudatum. 
B var. Edgvjorthii, text, membr,, surf, glabr., ‘pin. subentire. 
Loc. dry banks and rocky crevices. Himal. to 6,000 ft. 
Assam to Simla abundant on roadside above Caudatum. Multan 
and Scinde. B. shade, Bedd, F. S. I., 17. 
* * Frond more than once pinnate, segments flabel - 
late-cuneate, with petiole near centre ; sori obversely 
reniform. (Capillus Veneris group). 
3. Lowest pin. branched ; edge of segm. rounded, deeply 
lobed, lobes contracted. Capillus Veneris. 
Loc. wet rock. Himal. to 6,000 feet. Assam to Simla, and 
in wells throughout plains. 
4. Lowest pin. deltoid, edge of segm. rounded, irregularly, 
sometimes broadly lobed and finely toothed. venustum. 
Loc. shady banks, 7—8,000 ft. Assam. Khasia. Nepal. 
Masuri. Simla. Mirat. 
(More coriaceous in text, than last). 
* * * Fr. dichotomously forked, with numerous pin. ; 
springing from upper side of each of two branches. 
(Pedatum group). 
5. Text, pellucido-herb. ; pinnl. broadest next stem, lobed 
sometimes l-3rd down, lowest shortly stalked pedatum. 
(Main forks 4—6 branched from upper side, central largest) 
Loc. Jumnotri. Gurhwal. Kangra. Kumaon. Hattoo, 
near Simla, found by Captain Biddulph. 
6. Text, coriaceous ; pinnl. entire or slightly toothed, lower 
edge nearly straight, upper rounded, outer blunt, jlabellulatum. 
Loc. Assam. Khasia. Nepal. Kumaon, Bedd. F. S. I., 218. 
