` DIPLAZIUM. 
DIPLAZIUM SORZOGONEN SE. (Presl.) Caudex stout horizontal densely covered with long subulate falcate black-brown, 
stipites scattered distant stout 4 inches to a span long purplish-brown shaggy with crinite, curly, black-brown scales deflexed towards 
the base, fronds 1-2 feet long subcoriaceous dark blackish green when dry, ovato-lanceolate pinnate pinnatifid at the apex, pinnæ numerous 
horizontal sessile or nearly so 24 to nearly 6 inches long from a truncated base oblong elongato or linear-oblong acuminate pinnatifid 
serrated towards the apex, segments more or less deep oblong obtuse or retuse subfalcate entire or serrated at the apex, veins pinnated 
In each lobe, veinlets simple obliquely patent almost all soriferous, sori linear lower ones only diplazoid, rachis and coste especially 
beneath deciduously crinite or hairy. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii, 252 ;—Pr. Rel. Henk, 1 p. 45 ;—Mett, Asp. p. 185 ;—Pr. Tent. Pter. p. 114 ; 
Hypochlamys. Fee Gen. Fil. p. 200; D. acuminatum. Bl, En. Fil. Jav. p. 193% D. Smithianum ;—Xze. Bot. Zeit, vi. p. 195. ٢ 
The specimen figured is from Sikkim,—(Hook. Fil. and Thomson.) 
Hab. Sikkim 8—10,000 feet, Bhotan, Luzon, and Sorzogon, Java, Leyte, Borneo ? 
PLATE No. COXLVI. 
