Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
389 
Singapore. 
(Also in Borneo.) 
4. Syngramme alism^:folia. {Hook.) Caudex creeping ; 
stipes a span to a foot and more long, blackish-purple ; fronds subco- 
riaceous, simple 5-8 inches long, 2^ inches wide near the base, from 
a rounded base, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, finely acuminated ; veins 
numerous, approximate, simple or forked, anastomosing near the 
margin into 1-2 series of oblong hexagonal areoles ; sori narrow- 
linear on all the straight veins, but scarcely extending to the anasto- 
mosing ones. Bedd. F. B. /. t 240. Gymnogramme, Hook. Sp. 
Fil. v. 155. 
Singapore.. 
GENUS LXXII.— SELLIGUEA. {Bory) 
(After Selligue, a Frenchman.) 
Veins prominent, compound, anastomosing, with free included 
veinlets in the areoles ; sori long linear ; fronds simple, pinnatifid or 
rarely pinnate, articulate with the caudex ; habit and mode of 
growth of Pleopeltis, from which genus it only differs in the sori 
being long linear. 
Fronds simple. 
I. Selliguea Feei. {Hook.) .Rhizome firm, wide-creeping, 
the scales bright brown, fibrillose ; fronds dimorphous, the sterile ones 
3-4I inches long, i|-2+ inches broad, on stems 3^-6 inches long, the 
fertile ones narrower and more contracted at the base on stems 6-10 
inches long, both acute, entire, very coriaceous and glabrous ; main 
veins very prominent to the margin, i inch apart, veinlets obscure, 
forming copious areoles, with free included clavate venules ; sori 
linear immersed in single rows, rarely interrupted, between the main 
veins, not quite reaching the margin. Hook. Syn. Fil. 389. Sp. 
Fil. V. 158. Bedd F. B. /. 151. 
Malay Peninsula, Penang, Singapore. 
(Also in the Malay Islands.) 
