ASPLENIUM, § ElIDll'LAZIUM. 249 



Mett. — Diplazium mutilum, Kzc. Flora, 1839. Bcihl. i. 37- 

 Met ten. Asplen. p. 180, 



Hal). " Bahia, Lmchvaih." — " Proximum Dipl.si/lva(ico,W. Schk. t. 85 b, quod 

 vero glabrum, pimiis abhreviatis, dentatis, sorisque rcctis differt."— Are. 



2G9. A. (Eudiplazium) tomentosum, Mett.; caudex small 

 tortuous knotty scaly above sending doMMi numerous wiry 

 branched roots, stipites tufted 4-5 inches to a span long his- 

 pid especially towards the base with subulate blackish-brown 

 scales, fronds G-10 inches long firm-coriaceous oblong-ovate 

 acuminate pinnate pinnatifid at the apex, pinna) approximate 

 1.7-2j inches long h-^ of an inch wide sessile from an ob- 

 liquely truncated auriculated base linear-oblong acute rarely 

 subfalcate pinnatifid about halfway down to the rachis, seg- 

 ments acute subfalcate entire or toothed at the apex, lower 

 pairs of pinucC reflexed superior one serrated, segments of 

 the acumen toothed at the apex, veins pinnated in each lobe 

 or segment simple or one-forked, sori few 1-4 in each seg- 

 ment often diplazioid, involucres brown, membrane erose at 

 the margin. — Metten. Asplen. p. 182 (excl. syn.). Diplazium, 

 Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 192. Asplen. argutum. Fee, in Sme Mem. 

 p. 53. t. 24./. 2. Aspl. marginatum, TFall. Cat. n. 2204 a7id 

 2209 {according to Mettenius and Moore). Mettenius adds 

 D. Lasiopteris, and Allantodia deflexa, Kze., and Aspl. fron- 

 dosum, Wall. Cat. p. Gi, Add. Diplazium deflexum, J. Stn. 

 in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. p. 407- Asplen., Mett. 



Ilab. Java, Blume, in Serb. Nostr. Malacca, Cuming, n. .386, Sir TV. Norris. 

 Khasya, Griffith. Mergui, " in damp, dark, cavernous places, on banks, near water- 

 courses. When fresh it has a pale metallic lustre, which is lost in drying."— A well- 

 niarktnl species. Fue's figure represents a small specimen. The fibrous roots are 

 singularly stout and wiry. 



270. A. (Eudiplazium) elatum, Mett. ; " caudex erect pale- 

 aceous with blackish-brown lanceolate scales, stipes 9 inches 

 long dirty-reddish sparingly clothed with similar scales end- 

 ing in a patent bristle, frond deep green rigid-membranace- 

 ous H foot long broadly elliptical-lanceolate acuminate pin- 

 nate, pinnoc numerous laxly disposed patent 6^ inches long 

 8 lines wide petiolate from the inferior obliquely truncated 

 or rounded base, superior truncated and attenuated into a pe- 

 tiole linear gradually caudato-acuminate slightly but coarsely 

 crenate serrated at the apex, lowest ones remote a little ab- 

 breviated, crenatures abbreviated subtruncated repand, cos- 

 tules distinct diverging from the costa at an angle of 70°, 



