392 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
^ Fronds compound. 
4. Selliguea elliptica. {Thunb.) Rhizome woody, wide- 
creeping; stipes up to 2 feet or more long, erect, naked, straw-coloured; 
fronds 12-18 inches long, by 6-12 inches broad, generally pinnatifid 
nearly to the rachis into 4-10 pinnae on each side, sometimes 
subpalmately divided into 3-5 lobes, more rarely quite simple, or 
quite pinnate ; lobes or pinnae linear-oblong acuminate, ^-i^ inch 
broad, texture subcoriaceous, quite glabrous; main veins slender not 
distinct to the edge, areoles unequal, with copious free included 
clavate veinlets ; sori linear oblique, reaching the midrib but not the 
margin, sometimes interrupted and punctiform. Polypodium 
ellipticum, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 335. Selliguea decurrens, Hook. Syn. 
Fil. 389. Bedd. F. B. I. t 150. Wall. Cat. 5 and 776. 
Himalayas, Nepal to Bhotan ; Khasya, elevation 2,000-5,000 
feet ; Malay Peninsula, Tenasserim. 
(Also in the Phihppines, Queensland and Formosa.) 
5. Selliguea Maingayl (Baker.) Stipe i|- feet, dull brown, 
naked ; fronds deltoid, under i foot long pinnate, with 5 oblong- 
lanceolate pinnae, the end one largest, 5-6 inches long, 2-2I inches 
broad, slightly repand, narrowed gradually at the base, the lowest 
pair distant, texture membranaceous, glabrous, main veins distinct 
to the edge, \ inch apart, areoles copious, minute, with free included 
veinlets ; sori very copious, minute irregular, punctiform or confluent 
in lines or curves. Baker in Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 517. 
Malacca. 
GENUS LXXIIL— LOXOGRAMME. {Fresl.) 
{Loxos^ oblique ; gramme^ a line.) 
Characters of Selliguea, but differing in the fronds being adherent 
to the caudex (not articulate), and in their flaccid leathery texture 
and hidden venation. 
T. Loxogramme lanceolata. {Sw. imder Grammitis) Rhi- 
