392 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



* * Fronds compound. 



4. Selliguea elliptica. {Thunb.) Rhizome woody, wide- 

 creeping; stipes up to 2 feet or more long, erect, naked, straw-coloured; 

 fronds 12-18 inches long, by 6-12 inches broad, generally pinnatifid 

 nearly to the rachis into 4-10 pinnae on each side, sometimes 

 subpalmately divided into 3-5 lobes, more rarely quite simple, or 

 quite pinnate ; lobes or pinnae linear-oblong acuminate, -|— 1^ inch 

 broad, texture subcoriaceous, quite glabrous; main veins slender not 

 distinct to the edge, areoles unequal, with copious free included 

 clavate veinlets ; sori linear oblique, reaching the midrib but not the 

 margin, sometimes interrupted and punctiform. Polypodium 

 ellipticum, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 335. Selliguea decurrens, Hook. Syn. 

 Fil. 389. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 150. Wall. Cat. 5 and 776. 



Himalayas, Nepal to Bhotan ; Khasya, elevation 2,000-5,000 

 feet ; Malay Peninsula, Tenasserim. 



(Also in the Philippines, Queensland and Formosa.) 



5. Selliguea Maingayi. {Baker.) Stipe \\ feet, dull brown, 

 naked ; fronds deltoid, under 1 foot long pinnate, with 5 oblong- 

 lanceolate pinnae, the end one largest, 5-6 inches long, 2-2! inches 

 broad, slightly repand, narrowed gradually at the base, the lowest 

 pair distant, texture membranaceous, glabrous, main veins distinct 

 to the edge, \ inch apart, areoles copious, minute, with free included 

 veinlets ; sori very copious, minute irregular, punctiform or confluent 

 in lines or curves. Baker in Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 517. 



Malacca. 



GENUS LXXIIL— LOXOGRAMME. {Presl.) 



(Loxos, oblique ; gramme, a line.) 



Characters of Selliguea, but differing in the fronds being adherent 

 to the caudex (not articulate), and in their flaccid leathery texture 

 and hidden venation. 



t. Loxogramme lanceolata. (Sw. under Grammitis.) Rhi- 



