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SELLIGUEA. 



SELLIGUEA FeEL (Bory.) Caudex creeping paleaceous with subulato-setaceous scales which are dilated at the base 

 stlpites distant 2-4 or 6 inches long (of the fertile fronds) fronds more or less firm-coriaceous glabrous ; sterile ones 2-4-5 inches long, 

 ovate acuminate with an obtusely cuneate base rarely and only when young oblongo-ovate and obtuse ; fertile ones 4-6 inches long lanceo- 

 late acuminate (rarely oblong and obtuse) sub-decurrently attenuated at the base, costules very prominent especially in the fertile fronds, 

 veins obscure, in the sterile fronds forming a net work of irregular areoles in which are included free clavate simple or forked veinlets, 

 in the fertile fronds less compound and veinlets not forked, sori central between, and parallel with the costules, sunk, when young, small 

 and suborbicular, in maturity nearly as long as the costules linear-oblong pulvinate rarely subinterrupted. —Hook. Sp. FiL v. 158; BL 

 FiL Jav. p. 123 t. 51 / Bory. in Diet. Glass d'Hist. Nat. vi. p. 344 ; — Polypodium Vulcanicum ; BL L c. p. Hit. 56. Fig. 2 ;— Gram- 

 mitis diversifolia. Wall. Cat. n. 8. 



The Specimen figured is from the Calcutta Herbarium. 



Hab. Penang, Singapore, Java, Borneo. 



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