Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 393 



zome slender, wide-creeping; scales small, linear, brown; fronds 6- 

 8 inches long by ^-~ inch broad, linear lanceolate, the apex acute, 

 the margin entire, the lower third narrowed gradually into a very 

 short stipe, texture thick, coriaceous but flaccid, both sides glabrous ; 

 venation obscure, costal areoles numerous, small, without, or more 

 rarely with, free included veinlets, the midrib much more slender than 

 in involuta ; the sori shorter and often nearly parallel, or quite parallel, 

 with the midrib. Grammitis lanceolata, Sw. Syn. Fil. 22, 212, /. 

 1,7%". 4. Selliguea, Hook. Syn. Fil. 387. Sp. Fl. v. 156. Foxo- 

 gramma lanceolata, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 51. 



Southern India, Nilgiris and the higher Western mountains, 

 6,000-8,000 feet elevation, (rare compared with involutci). Ceylon, 

 above Newera Elya, rare ; Khasya, 4,000-5,000 feet elevation. 



(Also in China, Japan, Fiji, Samoa, and Africa, with its eastern 

 islands.) 



2. Loxogramme involuta. (Don. wider Grammitis?) Rhizome 

 stout, creeping, the scales lanceolate, brown ; fronds 8-18 inches long, 

 by 1— 2,\ inches broad, lanceolate, the apex acuminate, the margin 

 entire, the lower part narrowed very gradually into a short broad 

 compressed stipe ; texture thick coriaceous, but flaccid, both sides 

 glabrous ; venation obscure, areoles copious with free included vein- 

 lets ; sori in long parallel very oblique lines reaching from the 

 midrib nearly to the margin. Don. Fl. Nep. 14. Selliguea, Hook. 

 Sp. Fil. v. 155. Syn. Fil. p. 387. Foxogramma involuta, Bedd. 

 F. S. I. t. 50. Wall. Cat. 6, 7 and 10. 



Very common on the mountains throughout the Indian region ; 

 Himalayas, 2,000-7,000 feet elevation ; Southern India and Ceylon, 

 5,000-8,000 feet. 



Perhaps only a large form of lanceolata. Baker says there arc 

 no free included veinlets, but I find them always present in this 

 plant, (Sir J. I looker says sometimes), generally absent though some- 

 times present in lanceolata. 



''Also in the Malay Islands and Polynesia.) 



3. Loxogramme avenia. (Baker.) Rhizome creeping ; stipe 



