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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



2. Selliguea Hamiltoniana. (Wall.) Rhizome wide-creep- 

 ing, woody, the scales brown, linear ; fronds dimorphous, the sterile 

 ones 4-6 inches long, 2I-4 inches broad, elliptic oblong, entire, 

 glabrous, acuminate, very gradually tapering at the base, the stipes 

 2-5 inches long, winged towards the apex by the decurrent base of 

 the frond, fertile ones 4-8 inches long by i-i| inch broad, on stipes 

 more than 1 foot long, texture rather thin, with the venation con- 

 spicuous ; main veins very distinct to the edge, with copious inter- 

 mediate areoles, with free included 

 veinlets ; sori in broad continuous 

 rows, one between each main vein 

 and parallel with them. Grammitis 

 Hamiltoniana, Wall. Cat. 9. Gym- 

 nogramme, Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 160. 

 Bedd. F B. I. t. 239. 



North and East Bengal, from 

 Nepal to Mishmee and Chittagong, 

 the plains up to 4,000 feet elevation. 

 (Also in Yunan.) 



3. Selliguea- caudiformis. 

 (Hook.) Rhizome woody, creeping, 

 the scales large, pale-brown, lanceo- 

 late ; stipe 6-9 inches long, firm, 

 erect, glossy, pale-brown ; frond 6-9 

 inches long, ovate-oblong, acuminate, 

 the sterile ones 3-4, the fertile ones 

 1-2 inches broad, texture coriaceous, 

 both sides naked ; main veins distinct to the edge, areoles with 

 copious free clavate veinlets ; sori in one continuous or interrupted 

 row between the main veins. Hook. Sp. v. p. 158. Bot. Mag. t. 

 5328. Syn. Fil. 389. 



The Malay Peninsula, Tenasserim and Mergui, (nearly allied 

 to Fhi.) 



(Also in the Malay and Polynesian Islands and New Caledonia.) 



N?226. 



SELLIGUEA HAMILTONIANA. 



{Wall.) 



