Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 377 



GENUS LX VIII.— LEPTOGRAMME. (/. Sm.) 



(Leftos, slender ; gramme, a line.) 



Sori arising from the veins over the under surface of the frond, 

 linear or linear oblong, simple ; veins free ; fronds bi-tripinnatifid, 

 adherent to the caudex, habit and mode of growth of Phegopteris 

 and Lastrea, and only differing from the former in its elongated sori. 



1 . Leptogramme Totta. (Schl.) Rhizome scarcely creeping, 

 stipes subtufted, 6-12 inches long, pilose, below scaly; fronds 

 12-18 inches long, 6-8 inches broad, pinnate, both sides pilose, pinnae 

 lanceolate, f— 1 inch broad, pinnatifid half-way to the midrib, lobes 

 blunt, entire or subentire, 1 \-2 lines broad, herbaceous in texture ; 

 veinlets simple 5-7 on each side with the linear oblong sori medial. 

 Schlecht, Adumbr. 15, t. 6. Hook. Syn. Fil. 376. Grammitis Totta, 

 Bedd. F.S.I.i. 49. 



South India, very common on the mountains on the west side 

 at the highest elevations ; Ceylon at the highest elevations; North 

 India, North-west Himalayas, Kashmir to Bhotan, 6,000 feet 

 elevation, rare, Khasya, 3,000-5,000 feet elevation, common. 



(Also in Java, China, Japan, and Africa and its islands.) 



2. Leptogramme aurita. (Hook.) Rhizome extensively 

 creeping ; stipe 1 foot long, naked, glossy, the base curved and 

 furnished with a few deflexed ovate acute scales ; fronds up to 2 feet 

 long, and 1 foot broad, pinnate, pinnae in distant pairs pinnatifid 

 nearly or quite to the rachis into lanceolate entire or crenate lobes, 

 the lowest on one or both sides longer than the others and pinnatifid, 

 the others sometimes unequal, texture subcoriaceous, rachis glossy, 

 both surfaces generally glabrous ; veinlets mostly forked ; sori oblong. 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. 377. Gymnogramme, Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 14T. 

 Grammitis aurita, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 152. 



Sikkim and Bhotan, 3,000-6,000 feet elevation, Assam, 

 Khasya, 2,000-5,000 feet elevation. 



Var. LEVINGH. (Clarke.) Fronds weak and flaccid, pinna: \\ inch 



