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DIPLAZIUM. (See “ Ferns of Southern India.")‏ ظ 
. DiPLAZIUM TOMENTOSUM. (Mett.) Caudex small tortuous knotty scaly above sending down numerous wiry branched _ 
roots, stipites tufted 4-5 inches to a span long hispid especially towards the base with subulate blackish-brown scales, fronds 6-10 inches - 
long firm-coriaceous oblong-ovate acuminate pinnate, pinnatifid at the apex, pinnæ approximate 14-2} inches long 1-3 of an inch wide sessile 
from an obliquely truncated auriculated base linear-oblong acute rarely subfalcate pinnatifid about half way down to the rachis, segments ; 
acute subfalcate entire, or slightly sinuate and toothed at the apex, lower pairs of pinnæ reflexed superior one serrated, segments of the | 
acumen toothed at the apex, veins pinnated on each lobe or segment simple or one-forked, sori few 1-4 in each segment often وښو‎ 
involueres brown, membrane erose at the margin. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii, 249 ; Mett. Asplen. p. 182. (excl. syn.).—Diplazium Bl. En. Fil. | 
Jav. p. 192. Asplenium argutum. Fee in 8 me Mém, p. 53. t. 24. p. 192; A, marginatum Wall. Cat. n, 2204 dnd 2209 ہس‎ 
to ۵ and M 0076.) 
The Specimen figured is from Burmah (Parish) when ne it has quite à pale metati lustre, which i is lost in pU 
Hab. Burmah, Mergui, Java, Malacca, Khasya. 
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