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DIPLAZIUM. 
DIPLAZIUM SPECIOSUM. (Mett.) ; stipes tufted, 1 foot or more long, firm, erect, straw-colored or “brownish, nearly 
naked ; frond 1-2 feet long, 8-12 inch broad, with 10-20 pairs of pinnæ below the pinnatifid apex, the lower ones often stalked, 4-6 
inch long, 1-1} inch broad, the apex much acuminated, the edge lobed, the lobes reaching down two-thirds of the way to the rachis or 
more, close, + inch broad, slightly toothed, the base truncate or slightly cuneate ; texture herbaceous, but firm ; rachis erect, naked; 
veins pinnate in the lobes ; sori slender, reaching nearly to the edge. Diplazium, Blume ;—A, acuminatum, Wall, Mett, (non H, and A. 
Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 235. 
The specimen figured is from the Malay Peninsula, 
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Hab. Malayan Peninsula, Java, Hong-Kong, Philippines. 
PLATE No, CCXC. 
