﻿53. DIPLAZIUM. § 1. EUDlPLAZIUlVi. 4l5 



green, lower olive-green; veins forked. Sori small, oblong, oblique, + costular, 

 hardly 2 m.M. long, the lowest often double, longer. 

 Mindoro. 



(30) D. PreSCOttiailUBtl, Moore, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Asplenium 

 PrescoUianum, Wall., Hk., Spec, Fil., Ill, 2S1. 



Stipes + 35 c.M. long, stramineous, muricate. Fronds to 80 c.M. long, 

 ovate-lanceolate, with several to numerous spreading pinnae. Lower pinnae 

 10 c.M. apart, upper 4 c.M. apart, all petiolate, on stalks to 1 c.M. long 

 except the highest ones, which are sessile; lower pinnae pinnatifid ^/j on the 

 way down into blunt lobes and the lowest cut down quite lo the costa at the 

 base, (the lower segments iL c.M. long, linear-oblong, blunt at the apex), the base 

 suddenly narrowed or rounded on both sides. Texture thin-herbaceous; rachis 

 naked, smooth or muricate; main veins fine, pinnate in the lobes with the 

 short sori on Ihe branches. 



Malaya. 



(31a) II. bracliypoduui, Copel., Polypod. Philipp., 75 ; i45/j/emwm 

 brachypodum, Bk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 490 ; ( ? D. grammitoides, Pr , C. Chr., 

 Ind. Fil., 669). 



Stipes tufted, slender, 1 — 2 '/j c.M. long, with a few, minute, linear scales. 

 Fronds oblanceolate, acuminate, 10 — 15 c.M. long, + 2*/^ c.M. broad, 2-pin- 

 nate. Lower pinnae lanceolate-deltoid, + ^2 ^•^- broad, distinctly stalked, 

 square on upper side, cuneate-truncate on lower, cut down to the rachis 

 below ; many lower pinnae distant, reduced. Lowest auterior piunulae much the 

 largest, cuneate-oblong, dentate, 2 — 4 m.M. broad, the others lanceolate, entire. 

 Texture moderately firm ; rachis naked ; main veins pinnate in the lower lobes. 

 Sori medial, linear. 



Philippines. 



(316) O. BoliSteri, Copel., Philipp. Journ., I, Suppl, 254, tab. II. 



Rhizome ascending. Stipes approximate, 5 — 10 c.M. long, slender, the 

 base black, clothed with black-castaneous scales, the upper part dirty-green 

 and nearly naked like the rachis. Fronds 20 — 25 c.M. long, 3 '/a — 6 c.M. 

 broad, acuminate, the terminal pinna long, pinnatifid at the base. Lateral 

 pinnae many on each side, falcate, erecto-patent, stalked, dentato-lobate, the 

 base subtruncate, conspicuously and deeply auricled on the upper, obliquely 

 cut away on the lower side, the apex serrate; lower pinnae deflexed, pinna- 



