1 82 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



below ; fronds up to 1 6 inches long, pinnate, with numerous pinnae ; 

 pinnae sessile, about 6 inches long, by i^ broad, cut down very 

 regularly throughout two-thirds to the rachis into oblong blunt suben- 

 tire lobes, which are of equal breadth, (f inch) throughout to the apex ; 

 texture firm ; rachis slightly scaly ; veinlets simple, each occupied 

 in its entire length from costule to apex by a sorus. Hook. Syn. Fil. 

 p. 236 {in part.) Bedd. F. B. I. t. 246. 



Malacca and Penang ; differs from the North India plant in its 

 longer lobes with quite parallel edges, its simple veins, and its longer 

 sori. The figure quoted above is from the Malay plant (though 

 supposed at the time to be from North India), and there is another 

 specimen of the same in the Kew Herbarium, labelled Khas5 7 a, 

 Griffith, but it is probable that Griffith obtained it from Malacca. 



. 15. Diplazium Stoliczkve. {Bedd.) Stipe and rachis gla- 

 brous or subglabrous ; fronds i-i\ feet long, by 10 inches broad, 

 pinnate ; pinnae numerous, the lowest pair slightly the largest, and 

 only a few of the upper ones gradually diminishing, the lower 2-3 

 pairs opposite or subopposite, the rest alternate ; texture subcoria- 

 ceous ; pinnae very shortly petioled, 5-6 inches long, i-ii inch 

 broad, gradually tapering towards the apex, cut down f- to § of the 

 way to the rachis, into oblong, rounded pinnules, which are more 

 than \ inch broad, and very regularly crenated ; main veins slightly 

 wavy ; veinlets simple or forked towards their apex or below their 

 centre, all very conspicuous ; sori 3-7 to each pinnule or segment 

 (on the lower veins only), extending from the main vein § of the way 

 to the margin. Bedd. F. B. I. p. 13 and t. 361. 



North India (Dr. Jerdon), probably Khasya. This is not in the 

 Kew Herbarium, and had not been seen by Mr. Clarke when he 

 wrote his Review. 



Var. fi hirsutipes. Differs from the type by the stipes and 

 often the rachis being very fibrillose, in the pinnae being narrowed, and 

 the lower ones generally more or less reduced, and in the pinnules 

 being much less incised. Diplazium sorzogonense, Hook. Syn. 



