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Loc. Sylhet, Hattia Island, Bengal, Salt marshes Bedd. F. S. 
I. 204. 
* * Frond uniform, simple, bearing fruit on contracted apex 
(Hymenolepis). 
15. Rhiz. woody. spicatum. 
Seeding not constant. Bedd. 
Loc. To G,000 ft. Himal. Sikkim. Khasia, Churra, Assam. 
Sub-crder III— Osmundacece. 
G2. Osmund a. 
1. St. ferruginous woolly, fr. bipinnatifid. Claytoniana. 
Pilosa and monticola Wall. 
Loc. Himalayas to 10,000 ft. Khasia. Ridge beyond Landour 
near former Govt, garden (Dr. Jameson). Bedd F. B. I. 187. 
2. St. naked’,/)*, bipinnate. regalis. 
(fert. pinnl. cylindrical). 
b. speciosa Wall. fert. and bar. fr. distinct ; lat. pin. occasion- 
ally fertile. 
Loc. Himalayas. Simla, Chadwick falls. 
Sub-order IV.— Schizeaceae. 
64. SCHIZiEA. 
Fertile segments digitate rather than pinnate, caps, in 4 rows. 
(Astinostachys). 
1. St. flattened, midrili prominent beneath digitata. 
Loc. Marshy ground, Khasia. Bedd F. B. I. 2GS. 
