156 GYMNOGRAMME, § SELLIGUEA. 



costal ones sometimes including free veinlets, sori linear 

 elongated erecto-patent but varying a good deal in direction 

 not quite extending to the costa or to the margin. — Gram- 

 mitis, Don, Prodr.}). 14. Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil. t.b6. Bl. 

 Eu. Fil. Jav.p. 1 1 7- Antrophyum, Bl. Fil. Jew. p. 87- Loxo- 

 gram m e, Pr. SelVigueh, Kze. in Linnaa,xxiv. p. 252. Poly- 

 podium, Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 37. t. 25, 26, 27 {venation 

 and sori). Polyp. p. 116. Gra.mmit\sc\i?,p\da.ta.,Ze7ik. PI. Ind. 

 i. t. 2. Gr. scolopendrina, Bory, in Voy. Coq.j). 256. t. 30./. 1. 

 Gr. flavescens, Wall. Cat. n. 6. Antrophyum, Bl. Fil. Jav. t. 37. 

 f. 1 [not Grammitis coriacea, Klfs. in Sieb. Syn. 67, a Mauri- 

 tius Fern, which is considered by Kunze to be Gr. lanceolata, 

 Siv.). Antr.Q.\'enmm,Bl.Fil.Jav.p.86.t.S7./.2. Polypodium 

 Metten. Polyp, p. 1 14. t. 3, 20, 21. Loxogramme Blumei, P7\ 

 Selliguea, Kze. Polypodium, Metten. Polyp. p. 114. t. S,ff. 27, 

 28 [venatio7i and sori). Grammitis acuminata, Wall. Cat. 

 n. 7. Gr. raacrophylla, Wall. Cat. n. 10 {iiot Blume). Sel- 

 liguea Wallichiana, Plook. Ic. PL t. 204. 



Hab. One of the most common of Indian Ferns in mountain districts, at an eleva- 

 tion of 4000-6000 feet, from Kumaon in the west to Sikkim and Boutan and Khasya 

 in the east; Neilgherries, etc. Moulmeine and Borneo, 7'Aos. ioZii. Java, Blume 

 and others, frequent. Penang and probably all the Malay islands, Luzon, Cuming, 

 n. 12. Ceylon, Horton Plains, alt. 8000 feet, Gardner, n. 1227. Salomon Islands, 

 S. Pacific, Milne, n. 565 (very fine specimens). — With so common an Indian tro- 

 pical Fern as this, some variation may be anticipated in relative length and breadth 

 of the frond, but few species of Ferns are more easily recognized. Bory gives this 

 as a native of New Zealand, and hence perhaps Dr. Hooker, in his Flora N. 

 Zeal , has supposed it to be the Grammitis australis, Br. 



64. G. (Selliguea) lanceolata, Sw. ; caudex long creeping 

 densely rooting paleaceous, stipites often aggregated very 

 short 3-4 lines long compressed marginato-alate, fronds 6-12 

 inches long i-| of an inch wide simple carnoso-coriaceous 

 lanceolate sharply acuminated, below attenuated and long de- 

 current nearly as far as the caudex costate, costa sunk, veins 

 anastomosing and forming a series of oblong hexangular 

 areoles parallel M'ith the costa rarely including free veinlets, 

 sori large linear oblong pulvinate obliquely parallel with the 

 costa. — Grammitis, Stu. Syn. Fil. p. 22 and 213. t. \. f. 4. 

 Willd. Sp. PI. V. p. 139. Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 43. An- 

 trophyum, Bl. Fil. Jav.p. 84. t. 36. Loxogramme, Pr. Hook. 

 Gen. Fil. t. 73. B. Selliguea, Fee. Polypodium, Metten. 

 Pohjp. p. 12. t. 3.f. 25. 



Hab. Bourbon and Mauritius. Ceylon, Thivaites, C. P. n. 3146. S. Africa, 

 L. Meade, D' Urban (very bright green when dry: some specimens bifid and la- 

 ciniated at the apex). Tropical W. Africa, Sierra Leone, Brass, Barter; Fernando 



