178 THE BOTANY OF THE CHITRAL RELIEF EXPEDITION, 1895. 
FILICES. 
Lystopceris fragtlts, Bernk, Jambatai, 5,ooo'-“-6,ooo' ; Di**, 
4,500'— 10,000' ; Ziarat, 10,000'; Lowari Pass, 8,500'— 10,000'; Chitrii 
District, i f,ooo' (Harriss) ; Mirga Hills, 8,000' (Gatacre), 
Adiantum Captilus- Veneris, L. Jarabatai, 5,500'; Dir, 4,000' — 
5,500'; Ashreth Valley, 6,000'; Chakdara (Harriss); below Laram 
Pass, 4,000'; Zidrat Valley, 6,000' (Gatacre) ; Drosh. d.ooo'— q.ooo' 
(Hamilton). 
A. venustum, D. Don. Dir, 5,000' ; jambatai (Harriss) ; Mirga, 
8,000' (Gatacre) 
Cheilanthes fragrans, Webb and Berth, Jambatai, 5,000'— 
6,000' ; Dir., 4,500' ; Sharbat (Harriss), below Laram Pass, 4,000' ; 
Ashreth Valley (Gatacre) 
C. SzoviHii, F. and M, Between Drosh and Guirat, 4,500' 
(Harriss) ; without locality (C. E. Pitman). 
Pelleea nitidula Baker, Laram, y,ooo' (Gatacre). 
Pteris aguilina, L. Mirga (Harriss) ; Gujar Valley, 7,000* 
(Gatacre). 
P. cretica^ L., Dir., 6,500' (Harriss) ; Darora, 5,000'; below 
Laram Pass. 4;OOo' (Gatacre). 
P. longifolia^ L, Dir., 6,500' (Harriss); below Laram Pass, 
4,000'; Mirga Hills, 8,000'. 
P, ludens, Wall, Zi 4 rat Valley, 5,000'— 8,000' (Gatacre). 
In reply to a letter to General Gatacre asking foi further parti- 
culars regarding the localities of this very ii.leresting fern, I received 
the following information This fern was found growing in 
many places in the Ziaral Valley at 5,000 feet, near the Kaffir 
Rock,* a well-known spot by reason of the Kaffirs from Kafiristan 
selecting this wild spot as the place to set upon and murder caravans 
passing through the country. The valley hereabouts is a very shel- 
tered spot, a beautiful stream running down the centre, the hills 
clothed with flowering shrubs, and the valley filled with the w'hite 
paeony. Undoubtedly snow lies here during winter, even down to 
5,000 feet, but the place is warm and sheltered from wind ; the soil 
is very rich, and streams from the summits of the hills are always 
pouring through fissures into valley below. This fern w^as 
also seen growing in several places on the hill above on the west 
side of the valley, where w’ater runs out of rocks at 8,000 feet. 1 he 
ground here must be under snow for certainly four months, if not 
more. There is close by here a crater, apparently of volcanic origin. 
♦ The Kaffir Rock is about 3^ miles north of I.owari Pass, on the roaci. 
