390 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
2. Selliguea Hamiltoniana. ( Wall.) Rhizome wide-creep- 
ing, woody, the scales brown, linear ; fronds dimorphous, the sterile 
ones 4-6 inches long, 2I-4 inches broad, elliptic oblong, entire, 
glabrous, acuminate, very gradually tapering at the base, the stipes 
2-5 inches long, winged towards the apex by the decurrent base of 
the frond, fertile ones 4-8 inches long by i-i^ inch broad, on stipes 
more than i foot long, texture rather thin, with the venation con- 
spicuous ; main veins very distinct to the edge, with copious inter- 
mediate areoles, with free included 
veinlets ; sori in broad continuous 
rows, one between each main vein 
and parallel with them. Grammitis 
Hamiltoniana, Wall. Cat. 9. Gym- 
nogramme. Hook. Sp. Fil, v. 160. 
Bedd. F. B. I. t 239. 
North and East Bengal, from 
Nepal to Mishmee and Chittagong, 
the plains up to 4,000 feet elevation. 
(Also in Yunan.) 
3. Selliguea caudiformis. 
{Hook.) Rhizome woody, creeping, 
the scales large, pale-brown, lanceo- 
late ; stipe 6-9 inches long, firm, 
erect, glossy, pale-brown ; frond 6-9 
inches long, ovate-oblong, acuminate, 
the sterile ones 3-4, the fertile ones 
1-2 inches broad, texture coriaceous, 
both sides naked ; main veins distinct to the edge, areoles with 
copious free clavate veinlets ; sori in one continuous or interrupted 
row between the main veins. Hook. Sp. \. p. 158. Bot. Mag. t. 
5328. Sy?i. Fil. 389. 
The Malay Peninsula, Tenasserim and Mergui, {nearly allied 
to Feei.) 
(Also in the Malay and Polynesian Islands and New Caledonia.) 
N9226. 
SELLIGUEA HAMILTONIANA. 
{Wall.) 
