Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 389 



Singapore. 

 (Also in Borneo.) 



4. Syngramme alism^efolia. (Hook.) Caudex creeping ; 

 stipes a span to a foot and more long, blackish-purple ; fronds sub-co- 

 riaceous, simple 5-8 inches long, 2-J inches wide near the base, from 

 a rounded base, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, finely acuminated ; veins 

 numerous, approximate, simple or forked, anastomosing near the 

 margin into 1-2 series of oblong hexagonal areoles ; sori narrow- 

 linear on all the straight veins, but scarcely extending to the anasto- 

 mosing ones. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 240. Gymnogramme, Hook. Sp. 

 Fil. v. 155. 



Singapore. 



GENUS LXXIL— SELLIGUEA. (Bory.) 



(After Selligue, a Frenchman.) 



Veins prominent, compound, anastomosing, with free included 

 veinlets in the areoles ; sori long linear ; fronds simple, pinnatifid or 

 rarely pinnate, articulate with the caudex ; habit and mode of 

 growth of Pleopeltis, from which genus it only differs in the sori 

 being long linear. 



* Fronds simple. 



1. Selliguea Feei. (Hook.) Rhizome firm, wide-creeping, 

 the scales bright brown, fibrillose ; fronds dimorphous, the sterile ones 

 3-4! inches long, 1J-2I inches broad, on stems 3I-6 inches long, the 

 fertile ones narrower and more contracted at the base on stems 6-10 

 inches long, both acute, entire, very coriaceous and glabrous ; main 

 veins very prominent to the margin, \ inch apart, veinlets obscure, 

 forming copious areoles, with free included clavate venules ; sori 

 linear immersed in single rows, rarely interrupted, between the main 

 veins, not quite reaching the margin. Hook. Syn. Fil. 389. Sp. 

 Fil. v. 158. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 15 r. 



Malay Peninsula, Penang, Singapore. 



(Also in the Malay Islands.) 



