BS. DIPLAZIUM. § 1. fiCDIPLAZlUM. 401 



the lowest segments shorter than the next in order. Lobes and pinnae bluntly 

 rounded, .linear-oblong, to + Vi — 1 c.M. broad. Texture herbaceous; veins 

 forked. Sori reaching nearly from the midribs (costulae) to Ihe edge. 

 Java (escaped from gardens?); Ceylon. 



* (3) O. porphyrorachis, nteU, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl. 

 Pam., I*, 225; Asplenium porphyrorachis, Bfc, Journ. of Bot., XVII, 40; Hk., 

 Icon. PL, XVII, tab. MDCL; A. zeylanicum, Ces., Pel. di Bor., 21 ; A. lomariaceum, 

 Christ, Pil. Saras., Ill, 229; Poiypoimmsu6«erra<KOT, /TA., Hk. Bk., Syn. Pil., 325. 



Rhizome erect or short-creeping, clothed with lanceolate-acuminate, dark- 

 brown scales at the extremity. Stipes ± tufted, firm, slender, 5 — 30 c.M. 

 long, scaly at the base, black-hairy or scaly above, the hairs or scales deci- 

 g duous. Fronds IS — 40 c.M. long, 2'/j — 6 '/a c.M. broad, lanceolate, acuminate. 



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a the apex lobed or toothed, the lower ^/j — % deeply pinnatifid into many or 



jg numerous, close, spreading, subfalcate, linear-oblong, blunt, slightly crenate, 



<D serrate or toothed segments 8 — 15 m.M. broad, which have not seldom the 



^ sides entire and only the apex serrate. Lower segments gradually growing 



smaller, the 1 — 4 lowest free and deflexed. Texture subcoriaceous ; rachis 



and under surface slightly covered with scattered scales ; veins distinct, mostly 



once forked. Sori oblique, parallel, reaching + the edge. 



Malacca, Borneo, Celebes. 



(4) D. ehlorophyllum. Bead., Handb. Ind. Perns, Suppl., 39; 

 Asplenium chlorophyllum, Bk., Journ. of Bot., XXIII, 104. 



Stipes tufted, duU-grey-grieen, pubescent like the rachis, + 15 c.M. long. 

 ,4 Pronds oblong-lanceolate, simply pinnate, + 30 c.M. long, 10 — 13 c.M. broad. 

 ri ' Pinnae ± 20 on each side, close, lanceolate, sessile, acute, crenulate towards 

 S the apex, conspicuously auricled on the upper side at the base, the central 

 g ones 1 — 1 '/i c-M. broad,, the lowest strongly deflexed. Texture moderately 

 m firm; upper surface minutely paleaceous, under surface densely clothed with 

 minute, linear-subulate scales on the veins ; veins distinct, ere'cto-patent, deeply 

 forked. Sori not quite reaching midrib and margin ; indusium crisped, narrow, 

 moderately firm, pale-brown. 

 Pmang; Forrnosa. 



(5fl) ». InconispicuuiM, Christ, Bull. Herb. Boiss., 2« Serie, VI, 1000; 

 Rhizome suberect, black. Stipes few, + 20 c.M. long, the base black, 

 clothed with subulate, black-brown scales, the rest rufo-stramineous like the 

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