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10. Diplaziu.m longifolium. {Don.) Caudex erect, small, 

 densely clothed with the bases of old stipes, paleaceous, stipes tufted 

 5-6 inches long, fronds broad-lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous, 

 a span to 14 inches long, pinnated, pinnatifid at the apex, pinnae, on 

 slender petiole?, 1^-3 inches long, very patent, broad-lanceolate, 

 falcate, sharply acuminated, truncated and auricled at the superior 

 base, inferior base excised, the margin more or less deeply lobed, 

 lobes as well as the auricles spinulosely serrate ; costa slender, fiex- 

 uose, vein-like ; veins in oblique 

 fascicles corresponding to each 

 lobe, dichotomous lowest supe- 

 rior branch only soriferous ; sori 

 mostly asplenioid, linear, neither 

 attaining the costa nor the mar- 

 gin. Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. 7, u>ide7- 

 Asplenium. Diplaziumlobulosum, 

 Bedd. F. B. I. t. 247. Hook. 

 Sp. Fil. t. 141. Syn. Fil. 234. 



Mr. Clarke has placed this in 

 Asplenium, but there are diplazioid 

 indusia on my specimens, and on 

 some of those at Kew. Asplenium 

 trapeziforme (Roxb.),^^. F. S. I. 

 t. 134, is not at all allied here, as 

 suggested by Mr. Clarke. 



Nepal and Kumaon, 6,000- 

 8,000 feet. 



DIPLAZICJM I.ONCIKOLIUM. {Don 



11. Diplazium tomentosum. {Hook.) Caudex 1-2 inches, 

 erect, sending down wiry black roots ; stipes 6-9 inches long, firm, 

 erect; fronds deltoid-lanceolate, 6-12 inches long, 3-4 inches 

 broad at base and gradually narrowing upwards ; pinnae numerous, 

 the lowest pair deflexed, the others horizontal, |-| inch broad, 

 narrow-oblong, somewhat falcate, usually auricled at base on the 

 upper side, pinnatifid half or two-thirds down to the midribinthe larger 

 fronds, subentire in the smaller ones ; segments fakate, g inch broad ; 



