TAB. XVII. 



AsPLENITJM (DiPLAZIUM) LOBBIANUM, Hook. 



Fronde sesquipedall ovato-acuminata subeoriaceo-membra- 

 nacea pinnata, pinuis 5-6-uncias longis \\ unciam latis 

 petiolatis patentibus oblongis acuminatis paululum falcatia 

 basi superiore truncata rachi parallela rarius subauriculatis, 

 inferiore cuneata vel subrotundata marginibus serratis,pinnis 

 supremis sensim minoribus confluentibus, venis subhorizon- 

 talibus fasciculatis 1-terve dichotomis,sorIs solitariis (asplen- 

 ioideis) vel geminatis (diplazioideis) non raro subscolopen- 

 drioideis nee costam nee marginem attingentibus. 



Hab. Java, Thos. Lobb. 1846. 



This may possibly be included among the 12 species of 

 pinnated Diplazium of Java, enumerated by Blume : but the 

 characters of that author are so very brief, and unaccom- 

 panied by figures, which are such great helps in critical 

 species, that I had better avoid all allusion to them, and con- 

 tent myself with saying, that among my own numerous 

 diplazioid Asplenia, there is none to which I can refer this : — 

 nor can I find that it corresponds with any one known to me 

 of other countries. 



I possess but one frond, and that without caudex or stipes. 



Fig. 1. Lowest pinna, nat. size. f. 2. Portion of a fertile 

 pinna, magnified. 



Cbict, 2. 1. 17. 



