﻿410 53. DIPLAZIUM. § 1. EUDIPLAZIUM. 



Stalked, linear, acute, pinnatifid V2-way down to the costa, the base equilate- 

 ral, acute. Texture herbaceous ; colour bright-green above, paler beneath ; 

 surfaces naked ; rachis densely beset with short, spreading hairs ; veins 

 free, all bearing sori. 

 Philippines. 



* (27o) D. graiiiinit«tiiclesi, Pr., Copel, Polypod. Phillipp., 75; 

 Asplenium grammiloides, Hk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 491 ; Hk., Icon. PL, X, tab. 

 CMXIII. 



Rhizome creeping, the scales brown, lanceolate, acuminate. Stipes seriate, 

 approximate, slender, 6 — 15 c.M. long, deciduously scaly like the rachis, the 

 scales fibril-like, spreading, crisped. Fronds linear-lanceolate, 10 — 25 c.M. 

 long, 3 — 6 c.M. broad, the upper ^j — ^2 deeply pinnatifid, toothed to serrate 

 towards the acuminate point, the lower part pinnate with 6—10 erecto-patent 

 pinnae on each side. Central pinnae largest, subsessile, lanceolate, subfalcate, 

 blunt or acute, 2 — 3^2 c.M. long, '/2 — 1 c.M. broad, the edge toothed or 

 lobed and crenate, the base broadly cuneate, distinctly auricled on the upper 

 side; lower pinnae shorter, remote, blunt, ± stalked, the edge distinctly 

 lobed with short, blunt, subentire or crenate lobes, the lowest anterior lobe 

 the largest. Texture herbaceous but firm ; surfaces sparingly setulose ; rachis 

 winged in the upper part; veins oblique, once or more times forked. Sori 

 moderately large, the 1 — 3 lower of each pinna often double. — Fruiting 

 young specimens often small and with the lowest pinnae less incised. The 

 description is taken from specimens gathered by Raciborski in Central Java 

 and determined as Asplenium pusillum, Bl. 



Malaya. 



{"Lib) D. 11^oo«lli, Copel., Philipp. Journ., II, 129. 



Rhizome erect. Stipes close, 20 — 30 c.M. long, straight, the base grey- 

 brown and densely clothed with brown, falcate scales, the upper part stra- 

 mineous-brown and covered like the rachis with few, short, narrow, castaneous, 

 whether or not deflexed, disland scales. Fronds 40 — 50 c.M. long, hardly 

 20 c.M. broad, acuminate, 2-pinnatifid, the rachis stramineous-brown. Pinnae 

 ± 12 — 17 on each side, the central ones the largest, horizontal, short-stalked, 

 + 2 c.M. broad, acuminate, deeply pinnatifid, the base truncate, the rachis 

 castaneous. Lobes oblong, + 5 m.M. broad, subfalcate, serrulate, obliquely 

 truncate, separated by sinuses + 1 m.M. broad. Texture herbaceous; surfa- 

 ces naked, upper black-green, lower olivaceous; veins simple 5 — 6-jugate. 



