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horizontal, oblong, with' a broad base and very rounded apex, 

 § inch broad ; margin slightly crenate, the superior base slightly 

 lobed ; texture coriaceous, partial rachis channelled ; veins 

 simple, or the lowest ones forked ; sori the lowest one sometimes 

 diplazioid, but all generally asplenioid, reaching from midrib to 

 margin. 



Larut, Perak, 1,800 feet alt. (Dr. King's collector, No. 1,913.) 



6. Diplazium baxtamexse. Kohima, 4,500 feet alt. (Clarke.) 



10. Diplazium loxgifolium. Mussoorie (Hope) ; Simla 

 ( Trotter). 



11. Diplazium tomextosum. Madremacan Island, Mergui ; 

 Perak. {King, 8,521.) 



1 1 a. Diplazium chlorophyllum. (Baker.) " Stipes tufted, 

 dull grey-green, pubescent, as is the rachis, % foot long ; fronds 

 oblong lanceolate, simply pinnate, 1 foot long, 4-5 inches broad, 

 moderately firm in texture, green on both sides, minutely 

 paleaceous above, densely clothed with minute linear-subulate 

 scales on the veins beneath ; pinnae about 20 on a side, close, 

 lanceolate, sessile, acute, crenulate towards the tips, con- 

 spicuously auricled on the upper side at the base, the central ones 

 2-2^ inches long, i-f inch broad, the lowest strongly defiexed ; 

 veins erecto-patent, deeply forked ; sori falling but little short of 

 both midrib and margin, £_£- inch long, rarely diplazioid ; in- 

 dusium crisped, narrow, moderately firm pale-brown, glabrous, 

 persistent.'' Baker, Jour. Bot. 1885,/. 104. 



Penang. (Curtis.) Very near tomentosum, of which perhaps 

 it is only a variety. 



(Also in Formosa.; 



14. Diplazium sorzogonense, Perak, up to 2,000 feet alt. 

 (Day.) 



