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DIPLAZIUM. 
DIPLAZIUM PORRECTUM. (Wall) ^ Caudex erect or ascending stipites tufted 6-12 inches long subcastaneous, fronds 
8-10 inches to 14 foot long deltoid-oblong or pyramidal pinnate, pinnæ horizontal numerous 4-6 inches long petiolate or sessile and con- 
fluent at the acuminated pinnatifid apex, from a broad truncated and auricled or generally quite hastate base (having a distinct auricle 
above and below) linear-lanceolate obtuse or acuminate, lower ones more or less deeply pinnatifid, intermediate ones obtusely dentate, 
uppermost ones entire at the margins, veins patent pinnatifid in the auricles the rest once or twice forked, sori linear elongated confined 
to the superior or basal veinlet and extending its whole length, or on the two outer ones, mostly diplazioid, involucres membranaceous 
when young. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 250 ;— Wall. Cat. 204 ;—(afterwards at p. 63 altered to A. multisoratum) (not 224 Wallich, which is 
A. protensum from Mauritius, and is afterwards at p. 63 altered to A. polyodon.) Mett. Aspl. p. 177. t. 5. f. 1, 2 ;—Asp. auriculatum. 
Wall. Herb. 1823 and Cat. n. 204 as synonym to A. porrectum—Dipl. Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 113,—Aspl. phanerotis. Kze. in Bot. Zeit, 
p. 194. . x | 
The specimen figured is from Penang—( Wallich.) 
Hab. Penang and Singapore, Chapadong Hill, Malacca, Borneo. 
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