Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 393 
zome slender, wide-creeping; scales small, linear, brown; fronds 6- 
8 inches long by |— f inch broad, linear lanceolate, the apex acute, 
the margin entire, the lower third narrowed gradually into a very 
short stipe, texture thick, coriaceous but flaccid, both sides glabrous ; 
venation obscure, costal areoles numerous, small, without, or more 
rarely with, free included veinlets, the midrib much more slender than 
in involnta; the sori shorter and often nearly parallel, or quite parallel, 
with the midrib. Grammitis lanceolata, Siv. Syn. Fil. 22, 212, /. 
4. Selliguea, Hook. Syn. Fil. 387. Sp. Fl. v. 156. Loxo- 
gramma lanceolata, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 
Southern India, Nilgiris and the higher Western mountains, 
6,000-8,000 feet elevation, (rare compared with involutd). Ceylon, 
above Newera Elya, rare ; Khasya, 4,000-5,000 feet elevation. 
(Also in China, Japan, Fiji, Samoa, and Africa, with its eastern 
islands.) 
2. LoxoGRAMME INVOLUTA. {Dou. U7ider Granwiitts.) Rhizome 
stout, creeping, the scales lanceolate, brown ; fronds 8-18 inches long, 
by 1-2^ inches broad, lanceolate, the apex acuminate, the margin 
entire, the lower part narrowed very gradually into a short broad 
compressed stipe ; texture thick coriaceous, but flaccid, both sides 
glabrous ; venation obscure, areoles copious with free included vein- 
lets ; sori in long parallel very oblique hues reaching from the 
midrib nearly to the margin. Fo7t. Fl. Nep. 14. Selliguea, Hook. 
Sp. Fil. V. 155. Syji. Fil. p. 387. Loxogramma involuta, Bedd. 
F. S. I. t. 50. Wall. Cat. 6, 7 and 10. 
Very common on the mountains throughout the Indian region ; 
Himalayas, 2,000-7,000 feet elevation; Southern India and Ceylon, 
5,000-8,000 feet. 
Perhaps only a large form of lanceolata. Baker says there are 
no free included veinlets, but I find them always present in this 
plant, (Sir J. Hooker says sometimes), generally absent though some- 
times present in lanceolata. , 
(Also in the Malay Islands and Polynesia.) 
3. LoxoGRAMME AVENfA. {Baker.) Rhizome creeping ; stipe 
