Ferns of British India and Ceylon. ioi 



and Kinta, about 2,000 feet alt. {Day) The affinity of this 

 interesting little fern is with S. borneensis {Hook.), though apart 

 from its sori it has quite the aspect of a Polypodium. 



1, Selliguea Feei. {Wall. Cat. 8, Gymnogramme diverse 

 folia. Singapore.) 



3 a. Selliguea campyloneuroides. {Baker.) Rhizome 

 woody, wide-creeping, \ inch diameter ; scales small lanceolate, 

 dark brown ; stipes winged, from very short up to 8 inches long ; 

 fronds rather rigid in texture, simple oblong, cuspidate, much 

 attenuated at the base, glabrous, up to 20 inches long by 4^ inches 

 broad at middle ; main veins very distinct, ^-f inch apart, 

 regularly produced from the midrib to the margin, with distinct 

 arching cross veins enclosing each several areoles with free included 

 veins, or in some fronds, main veins only i inch apart, the cross 

 veinlets not arched, and no free veinlets ; sori in single inter- 

 rupted rows, reaching all the way from midrib to margin. Baker, 

 Jour. Linn. Soc. xxiv.fl. 261. 



Salama, Perak. {Dr. King's collector, No. 3,112.) 



(Also in Borneo.) 



36. Selliguea membranacea. {Hook.) Rhizome wide 

 creeping, the scales small, linear, nearly black ; stipes 2-6 inches 

 long, nearly naked ; fronds 6-12 inches long, 1-2^ inches broad, 

 lanceolate, gradually much attenuated at the base, finely 

 acuminate at apex ; margins entire ; texture papyraceous, 

 glabrous ; primary veins very slender, about f inch apart, dis- 

 tinct to nearly the margin, united by transverse veinlets, forming 

 large hexagonal areoles with free included veinlets ; sori in 

 oblique parallel interrupted lines between each main vein. Hook. 

 Syn. Fil.p. 388. 



Perak, at the Rampa river [Dr. King's collector, Nos. 948, 

 2,9*6 and 8,844). Singapore {Moore } s Her/).). 



in the Malay Islands and the Philippines.) 



