196 
DIPLAZIUM. (See “ Ferns of Southern India,” p. 33.) 
DIPLAZIUM PALLIDUM, (BL) Caudex ? stipes a foot or more long stramineous or subcastaneous deciduously scaty at 
the base, frond 14-2 feet long ovate acuminate subcoriaceous, often pale whitish-green when dry, pinnated, pinnæ numerous approximate 
mostly petiolate horizontal 5-6 inches long 3-2 of an inch broad from a somewhat rounded or obliquely cuneated base linear-oblong 
acuminate falcate sharply and subspinulosely serrated, terminal one petiolate and similar to the rest or larger and broad and pinnatifid at 
the base from being formed of dwarfed and confluent pinnæ, very coarsely serrated towards the finely acuminated apex, veins very patent 
immersed generally twice dichotomous the lowest superior branch (arising from near the costa) bearing the linear sorus along its whole 
length rarely diplazioid and only from'1-3 at the superior and mostly truncated but not auricled base, involucres narrow firm-membrana- 
ceous. Look, Sp. Fil. iii. 238.—Bl, En. Fil. Jav. p. 176.—Kze. in Bot. Zeit. vi. p. 146.—Metten Asplen. p. 176. t. 5. f. 9, 10. (Single 
pinna, nat. size, and sori magnified—very Saithful,) Moore, Ind, Fil, 0.151. Aspl, calophyllum, J. Sm. in Hook, Journ. Bot, iii p. 408, 
Metten Asplen. p. 176. | j | 
The specimen figured is from Moulmein. (Parish). 
Hab. Moulmein, Luzon, $. Camarines, Java, 
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