238 ASPLENIUM, § EUDIPLAZIUM. 



the superior basal one principally diplazioid. — Hook. 2nd Cent, 

 of Ferns, t. 16. 



Ilab. Ceylon; banks of a large stream of Kotmalee Oja, elev. 4000 feet, 

 Gardner, n. 1249, Thwaites. — I possess only two specimens from the above 

 locality, and have ventured, in the work just mentioned, to constitute a new species 

 of them : though it may possibly eventually prove to be a young form of some 

 described and more compound one. The fructification is, however, copious and 

 perfect. 



250. A. (Eudiplazium) jmmati/ido-pinnaium, Ilook. ; cau- 

 dex erect thick with very coarse rooting fibres, stipites aggre- 

 gate furrowed in front rather stout a foot and more long, 

 fronds 9-10 inches long broad-ovate nearly as broad as long 

 firm-coriaceous opaque, pinnae large 1.3-15 4-5 inches long 

 very patent 1^ inch wide from a rather broad-cuneate nearly 

 sessile base oblong-lanceolate acuminate strongly serrated 

 those of the upper half of the frond confluent at the base 

 terminal segment large lobed at the base, veins in pinnated 

 fascicles very patent, sori narrow-linear all diplazioid, fre- 

 quently short and approximate to the costa. 



Ilab. Mishmee, Griffith. — This diplazioid Anpleniiim is remarkable for the 

 lower half, or nearly so, of the frond being pinnate, while the upper half, by the 

 confluence of the bases, is deeply pinnatifid, with a large terminal segment ; the 

 pinna; are coarsely serrated, very opaque, and void of gloss. I have seen it in no 

 other collection but that of the late Mr. Griflith. 



*** Fronds pinnate ; pinna often confluent at the acuminated apex. 



251. A. (Eudiplazium) pallidum, Bl. ; caudex ?, stipes a 

 foot or more long stramineous or subcastaneous deciduously 

 scaly at the base, frond 1^-2 feet long ovate acuminate sub- 

 coriaceous often pale whitish-green when dry pinnated, join- 

 nae numerous approximate mostly petiolate horizontal 5-6 

 inches long i-f of an inch broad from a somewhat rounded 

 or obliquely cuneated base linear-oblong acuminate falcate 

 sharply and subspinulosely serrated, terminal one petiolate 

 and similar to the rest or larger and broad and pinnatifid at 

 the base from being formed of dwarfed and confluent pinnae 

 very coarsely serrated towards the finely acuminated apex, 

 veins very patent immersed generally twice dichotomous the 

 lowest superior branch (arising from near the costa) bearing 

 the linear sorus along its whole length rarely diplazioid and 

 only from 1-3 at the superior and mostly truncated but not 

 auricled base, involucres narrow firm-membranaceous. — Bl. 

 En. Fil. Jew. p. 176. Kze. in Bat. Zcit. vi. p. 146. Metten. 

 Asplen. p. 176. t. 5. _/". 9, 10 {ainyle pinna, nat. size, and sori 



