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G. (Selliguea) Feei — Sel-li'-gue-a ; Fe'-e-i (Fee's), Hooker. 



A stove species, of small dimensions, native of the Malay Islands and 

 Peninsula, and, according to Beddome, extending from Penang and Singapore 

 to Java and Borneo, Its fronds, which are pro- 

 duced from a firm, wide-creeping rhizome (stem) 

 furnished with scales of a particularly bright brown 

 colour, are dimorphous (of two forms) : the barren 

 ones, oin. to 4in. long, llin. to 2in. broad, and 

 oblong- egg- shaped, are borne on stalks lin. to 3in. 

 long while the fertile ones, a little longer and 

 narrower, are borne on longer stalks. Both kinds 

 are entire (undivided), sharp -pointed, of a leathery 

 texture, and smooth on both sides. The narrow- 

 oblong sori (spore masses) are disposed in single 

 rows between the main veins, not reaching either 

 the midrib or the edge. Its conspicuous venation 

 renders this species very interesting. Fig. 60 is 

 reduced from Col. Beddome' s " Ferns of British 

 India," by the kind permission of the author. — 

 Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 158. Beddome, 



Fig, 60. Gymnogramme Feei 



Ferns of British India, t. 151. (. n^^t si^g) 



G. (Eugymnogramme) ferruginea — Eu-gym-nog-ram'-me; fer-ru- 

 gin'-e-a (rusty), Kunze. 

 In this very singular-looking species, native of Peru and Panama, the 

 principal attraction resides in the stout, tufted stalks, which are densely clothed 

 with woolly down of a rusty-brown colour. The fronds, 1ft. or more long 

 and oin. to 4in. broad, are bipinnate (twice divided to the midrib), their 

 leaflets, 2in. to oin. long, |in. to lin. broad, and of a somewhat leathery texture, 

 being cut down to the midrib below into oblong or narrow- oblong, entire 

 or slightly -toothed lobes or pinnules. Their upper surface is naked, while 

 their lower one is densely coated with a woolly material similar to that 

 noticed on the stalks. The sori (spore masses) are lax (loose), simple or 

 iovkQ,d..— Hooker, Species Filicuin, v., p. 138. Nicholson, Dictionary of 

 Gardening, ii., p. 104. 



