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Mahableshwar, SatAra Fort walls. Ceylon— Trimen. Australasia— N. S. Wales, Tas- 
mania and N. Zealand. Afr. \ Macaronesia, Barbary States and Abyssinia ; Cape 
Colony and Madagascar. 
This species, and two others, are annual, and form the genus Annogramma of 
Link. (Syn. Fil.) Mr, Marquand, a well-known authority on Algae, tells me 
that 0. leptophylla is in some years plentiful in Jersey, and sometimes com- 
paratively rare. 
Subgenus Selligoea, Bory. 
7. G. involuta, Hook. ; Syn. Fil. 387 ; 0. R. 570. Loxogrammc 
involula , Don (under Grammitis ), Bedd. H. B. 393. 
Punjab : Simla Reg .— Simla 5-6000', Lady Dalhousie, Hope, Blanford, Trotter, 
Bliss. 
$ -W.-P : D. D, Dist . — Mussooree and neighbourhood, in various places 47-6500', 
on trees, Edgew. Duthie, Mackinnons, Hope ; T % Garh.— Phedi 4-5000', Duthie ; 
JB . Garh . — below Kinoll 5000', Duthie ; Mrs. Fishe , Kumaun 4-8500', on trees and 
rocks? plentiful in some places, R. Blink., S. & W.,Hope, Davidson, Duthie, MacLeod 
Distbib, — Asia : N. Ind. (Him.) Nepal Wallich, Sikkim and Bhot&n ; Assam— 
Ehasia Dist. 1-5000', very common, N. Manipur 5500', Clarhe. S. India— 5-8000', 
Ceylon 5-8000. Malay Penins. — Penang, Wallich 1822, China : Yunnan — Mengtez, 
Hancock , Henry ; Szechwan Faber , Philippines, Polynesia— Solomon Isles. 
8. Gc elliptiea, Baker ; Syn. Fil. 389 ; C. R. 570, Selliguea elliptical , 
Thunk, Bedd. H. B. 392. 
N,-W. P. : D. D. Dist,— Sowarna Nadi, 4500', Mackinnons 1878-79, P. W. Mackin- 
non and Hope 1881 ; in the Ddn — Nalota Kh&la 2600', Hope 1881, 1889, and 1891 : 
station shown to A. Campbell, Trotter, and Gamble in 1891. 
Distbib. — Asia : N. Ind. (Him.) Sikkim and Bhutan ; Assam — Khasia Dist., 2500- 
5000', very common, Kohima 45-6000', Clarke , N. Manipur 4600', Clarke. Burma — 
Tenasserim Prov. Malay Penins. Tonkin, Philippines, Japan. China. Formosa. 
Australia — Queensland 
I think it is a mistake to put this species, as Baker and Beddome do — 
* * Fronds compound there is always a wing, though sometimes nearly 
interrupted, to the main rhachis in even the longest and most developed fronds ; 
and Thunberg’s name, elliptiea , and YxQ§V&—decurmis, seem to imply this. 
The fronds are as much a-pinqate as are those of the series of Polypodium 
(Phym, ) from oxylobum to ebenipes ; but the main veins or secondary rhachises 
are stouter than those of the Polypodiums. Baker says — “ Oldham gathered in 
Formosa a form with the fronds quite entire,” and Clarke says he has an 
example, in full fruit, quite simple. I have some fronds, gathered in the Dehra 
Dun from young rhizomes, which are 2 — 3 in. I, quite simple, but sterile, and 
1 think this simplicity goes to prove that the plant has not pinnate fronds. 
A specimen of G. elliptiea horn the Dehra Dun has stipes 13£ in. 1., and 
frond 16x11 in. : it has 7 pairs of lobes, and a terminal. This fern, when 
dried, tinges paper pink, as does also Asplenium emiforme. 
