412 53. DIPLAZIUM. § 1. EUDIPLAZIDM. 



entire; higher pinnae sessile, obliquely serrate at the margin, otherwise 

 similar to the medial ones ; highest pinnae gradually passing into the lobes 

 of the terminal pinna. Texture chartaceo-herbaceous ; colour blackish 

 when dry; surfaces naked; co-stulae pinnate, slightly hirsute beneath; veins 

 simple, to 8-jugate in the lower, to 5-jugate in the central pinnae. So- 

 ri copious, straight, parallel, reaching ± from the costulae to the edge; 

 iudusium firm, shortly fimbriate, pilose when young. — Near D. sorzogonense, 

 Pr. 



Sumatra. 



(29o) W. sorsogonense, Pr., Tent. Pterid., 114; Copel, Polypod. 

 Philipp. 74; Bedd., Ferns Br. I., II, tab. CCXLVI; D. Woodii, Copel, in 

 Philipp. Journ., IF, 129; D. speciosum, Bl., Enum., 183; Copel., J'olypod. 

 Philipp., 74; Asplenium sorzogonense^ Pr., Rel. Haenk., I, 45 ; Matt., Farng., 

 V, Asplen., 18B; A. speciusum, Mett., 1. c. ; Athyrium sorsogonense, Copel:, 

 in Philipp. Journ., lUP, 296; var. poense, Copel., VII°, 61; var. major, 



Forma speciosa: Large or middle-sized; pinnae to 177j cm. long, 

 2'/j— 4 cm. broad; veins ± 7-10 on a side. — Malaya. 



Forma javanica: Large; pinnae to 25 cm. long, 4- "& rem. broad; lobes 

 serrate; veins ± 11— 15 on a side. -:si«ffia*5.2«r.rr-/'J««Bi««B 



Forma 

 broad. ~ J 



Forma 

 Malacca. 



(29ft) « 



tab. I, A. 



Stipes 

 part, sparingly clothed like^ the rachis with narrow, spreading,' flexuose 

 scales becoming smaller towards the apex of the frond Fronds 50—60 c.M. 

 long, ± 30 c.M. broad, acuminate, hardly 2-pinnate, the apex pinnatifid. 

 Central pinnae largest, horizontal, acuminate, deeply pinnatifid, the base 

 truncate or subtruncate, with a short, black stalk; lowest pinnae slightly 

 remote and reduced, sometimes deflexed. Lobes oblong, subacute, the largest 

 + 3 C.M. long, + 1 c.M. broad, sharply serrate towards the apex, connected 

 at the base by ji narrow wing, but some of them sometimes free, the lowest 

 lobes of the lowest pinnae reduced. Texture papyraceous ; upper surface black- 



