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Mahableshwar, Sat&ra Fort walls. Ceylon— Trimen. Australasia— N. S. Wales, Tas- 

 mania and N. Zealand. Aft. \ Macaronesia, Barbary States and Abyssinia ; Cape 

 Colony and Madagascar. 



This species, and two others, are annual, and form the genus Annogramma of 

 Link. {Syn. Fil.) Mr. Marquand, a well-known authority on Alga,, tells me 

 that 0. leptophylla is in some years plentiful in Jersey, and sometimes com- 

 paratively rare. 



Subgenus Selligdea, Bory. 



7. G. involuta, Hook. ; Syn. Fil. 387 ; C. R. 570. Loxograrnme 

 involuia, Don (under Grammitis), Bedd. H. B. 393. 



Punjab : Simla Reg. — Simla 5-6000', Lady Dalbousie, Hope, Blanford, Trotter, 

 Bliss. 



N.-W.-P : B. B. But. — Mussooree and neighbourhood, in various places 47-6500', 

 on trees, Edgew. Duthie, Mackinnons, Hope; T % Garli.-* • Phedi 4-5000', Duthie ; 

 B. Garh. — below Kinoll 5000', Duthie ; Mrs. Fisher, Kumaun 4-8500', on trees and 

 rocks: plentiful in some places, R. Blink., S. & W.,Hope, Davidson, Duthie, MacLeod 



Distrib. — Asia : N. Ind. (Him.) Nepal Wallich, Sikkim and Bhotan ; Assam— 

 Khasia Dist. 1-5000', very common, N. Manipur 5500', Clarke. S. India— 5-8000', 

 Ceylon 5-8000. Malay PeninB. — Penang, Wallich 1822. China : Yunnan — Mengtez, 

 Hancock, Henry ; Szechwan Faber. Philippines, Polynesia — Solomon Isles. 



8. G. elliptica, Baker ; Syn. Fil. 389 ; C. R. 570. Selliguea elliptica, 

 Thunb., Bedd. H. B. 392. 



N.-W. P. : B. B. Bist.— Sowarna Nadi, 4500', Mackinnons 1878-79, P. W. Mankin- 

 non and Hope 1881 ; in the Dun— Nalota KhSla 2500', Hope 1881, 1889, and 1891 : 

 station shown to A. Campbell, Trotter, and Gamble in 1891. 



Distrib. — Asia : N. Ind. (Him.) Sikkim and Bhotan ; Assam — Khasia Dist., 2500'- 

 5000', very common, Kohima 45-6000', Clarke, N. Manipur 4500', Clarke. Burma — 

 Tenasserim Prov. Malay Penins. Tonkin, Philippines, Japan. China. Formosa. 

 Australia — Queensland. 



I think it is a mistake to put this species, as Baker and Beddome do — 

 * * Fronds compound ; — there is always a wing, though sometimes nearly 

 interrupted, to the main rhachis in even the longest and most developed fronds ; 

 and Thun berg's name, elliptica, and Presl's — decurrens, seem to imply this. 

 The fronds are as much a-pinnate as are those of the series of Polypodium 

 (Phym. ) from oxylobum to ebenipes ; but the main veins or secondary rhachises 

 are stouter than those of the Polypodiunis. Baker says — " Oldham gathered in 

 Formosa a form with the fronds quite entire," and Clarke says he has an 

 example, in full fruit, quite simple. I have some fronds, gathered in the Dehra 

 Duu from young rhizomes, which are 2 — 3 in. 1., quite simple, but sterile, and 

 I think this simplicity goes to prove that the plant has not pinnate fronds. 



A specimen of G. elliptica from the Dehra Dun has stipes 13^- in. 1., and 

 frond 16x11 in. : it has 7 pairs of lobes, and a terminal. This fern, when 

 dried, tinges paper pink, as does also Aspknium ensiforme. 



