Pinna of mature Frond— under side. 



DIPLAZIUM DECUSSATUM. 



J. Smith. Moore and Houlston. 



PLATE L. VOL. V. 



Diplazium Lasiopteris, 

 Asjolenium decussatum. 



Link. Kunze. Fee. Schott. 

 Wallich, {not of Swaetz.) 



Diplazium — To double. 



Decussatum — Cross-fro^decl. 



A DULL, woolly-looking, coarse species, which propagates so 

 freely from spores, that every Fern-pot abounds with seedling 

 plants. 



Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1840, having 

 been received from the E-oyal Botanic Gardens of Berlin. 



An evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of the East Indies. 



Fronds pubescent, somewhat ovate-lanceolate in form, and 

 pinnate; the pinnae petiolulate, lanceolate in shape, subcordate 

 at the base, and profoundly pinnatifid, with oblong-obtuse 

 rounded segments, which are crenate, the basal ones remote. 



