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(d) . rufo-barbatum Wall, rachis densely clothed with 
reddish brown filbrillose scales. 
(e) . Tsus simense Hk. slender form ? * 
9. St. scaltered slender, polished, long terminal and lat. pin. 
lane ; segm. long rhomb, cut away one-half on lower side, amabile. 
Loc. Nepal. 
* * * Lower pinnae more than once pinnate. 
10. Text. herb. fr. subdeltoid 4 pinfid. Silckimense. 
Loc. Mon Lepcha, Nepal 10 — 11,000 ft. Bedd F. B. I. 127. 
Rhizome creeping 10—11. 
11. Fr. 3 — 4 pinfid, or lane, teeth copious, aristate, low r est 
pin. largest ; soil' near midrib in 2 rows. aristaturn. 
a. coniifolium "Wall more divided, segm. copiously toothed 
with lower lobes distinct. 
b. Assamicum Kuhn , fr. subcor, 3 pinfid, lower pinnl. dis- 
tant stalked, obi. lane, acum. 
Loc. Naini Tal. Nepal, Khasia Bhotan 4,500 ft. S Assam. 
12. Fr. 4 — 5 pinfid, ov. delt; ult. div. lin. awned, sori 
solitary. fceniculaceum. 
Loc. Choi a, Sikkim 7-10,000 ft. 
f f Veins uniting slightly towards edge [not invariably] 
(Oyrtomium). 
13. Pin. lane, lobed ( sometimes down to rachis below), sori 
in rows. caducum. 
Loc. Assam to Simla to 7,000 ft. Bedd F. B. I., 45. 
14. Pin. falcate, edge entire or slightly undulated, sori small 
scattered falcatum. 
B. caryotideum Wall, pin. large sharply toothed, slightly lobed 
or auricled. 
Loc. Moist shade to 8,200 ft. Bhotan to Masauri (Lindhurst). 
Simla Khud between Elysium and Jacko.f 
* Some of its many forms seem to connect ilicifolium, Thomsoni, Prescot- 
tianum, and through Atkinsoni, Lachenense. 
f Ainabilis, aristaturn, coniifolium, foeniculaceum have frequent reniform 
involucres. 
