GYMNOGRAMME, § SELLIGUEA. 157 



Po, alt. 3000 feet, Gustnv Mann, n. 373, and Cameroon Mountains, common, alt. 

 4-7000 feet, n. 1381 (some specitneiis 1^ incli broad). Java, Blume, Thos. Lobh. 

 India : Kliasya and Moosiiiee, Griffith, alt. 3-4000 feet. Hooker fil. and Thomson ; 

 Neilgherries, jraZ/icA (Gr.Wightiaiia, Wall.) China: Bonin, Beechey, C. Wriylit. 

 Japan : Nagasaki, Oldham ; Tsus-Sima, U'ilford. 



65. G. (Selliguea) elongata, Sw. ; caudex creeping rufo- 

 tomentose as well as tlie copious radicles, stipites distant 

 3-4 lines long, fronds 3-8 inches long l^-h an inch wide co- 

 riaceous opaque simple S[)arsely and deciduously scaly (with 

 very minute rounded peltate ciliato-dentate scales) lineari- 

 lanceolate acuminate much and gradually attenuated below, 

 costa often black on the under side, veins submanifest on the 

 thinner fronds anastomosing so as to form elongated areoles 

 nearly ])aiallel with the costa the lower ones often including a 

 long^free veinlet, sori oblong a little sunk pulvinate nume- 

 rous intermediate between and parallel with the costa and 

 the margin, capsules when young mixed with minute peltate 

 sc?i\&s.—Sw. Si/ii. Fil. ]}. 22. U'illd. Sp. PL v. p. 140. Syn- 

 ammia, Fr. Mecosorus, Kl. Phlebodium, J. Sm. Poly- 

 podium, Metteii. Polyp. p. 88. Drynaria, Fee, and D. Prieurii, 

 Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 271, and 6me Mem. Foug. Nouv. p. 17- t. 6. 

 Grammitis lanceolata, Schk. Fil. p. 9. /. 7 {sori too long). 

 Gr. squamulosa, Splitg. 



Hab. Tropical America, frequent. Throughout the \X. India Islands, Cuba, 

 Wright, n. 790. Venezuela, Binschill. Brazil, Raddi, Gardner, n. 192, and 

 othern. Surinam, Splitgerber. Western Andes of Quito, Spruce, n. 5064. — Ge- 

 nerally a small but well-marked species. 



66. G. (Selliguea) Salvinii, Hook. ; caudex long creeping 

 paleaceous and rooting with densely tomentose fibres, fronds 

 distant carnoso-membranaceous simple 6-10 inches long 

 glabrous obtusely acuminate gradually attenuated to the per- 

 fectly sessile base obscurely costate, veins forming series of 

 oblong hexagonal areoles with no included free veinlets, sori 

 linear or short oblong pulvinate slightly oblique but nearly 

 parallel with the costa. — Grammitis, Hook. 2d Cent, of Ferns, 

 t. 71. Selliguea Mexicana, Fee, 7nie Mem. Foug. A'ouv. 1. 10. 



Hab. Guatemala, Vera Paz, alt. 3500-.'}000 feet, Osbert Salcin, Esq., Jurgen- 

 sen, n. 248 ? — A very distinct-looking plant of its section, with quite sessile fronds 

 and with a very obscure costa. The latter is represented by a broad whitish line 

 rather than by any perceptible thickening to constitute a midrib. My specimens 

 are very perfect, and I have seen none but those gathered by Mr. Salvin. I can- 

 not satisfy myself without authentic specimens if it be the same as Foe's Selliguea 

 Mexicana, thus characterized, " fronds lanceolate thick coriaceous soft attenuated 

 at both extremities wlien dry yellowish, the margin undulate, stipes very short 

 winged, sori linear obtuse straight remote, capsules subrotuud, pedicels broad 



