201 
 DIPLAZIUM. 
DIPLAZIUM T HWAITESII. (A. Br.) Caudex long, creeping, black rooting, stipites scattered 4 inches to a span long, 
and as well as the main rachis woolly with crisped hairs mixed with اسنا‎ membranaceous scales, fronds a span to a foot long, ovato- 
lanceolate acuminate, membranaceous, pinnate, pinnatifid at the apex, pinnæ 14-3 inches long, approximate, sessile, horizontal, lanceolate, — 
obtuse, straight, deeply almost to the rachis pinnatifid with short-oblong qe lobes, toothed at the apex, veins pinnated simple or forked, 
sori in two oblique rows in each lobe, rather small linear-oblong, involucres pale-brown, membranaceous, convex, eroso-ciliate, and dipla- 
zioid, but far more generally asplenioid, costes and veins above subglandularly and very ers hirsute, Hook, Sp. Fil, ú, 250 ;— A4, 
Braun. Ind. Hort. Berol. 1857. | m 
The äperimen figured is from Ceylon. It is nearly allied to D. lasiopteris, and until I lately received copious specimens from | 
Mr, Thwaites, I had referred it to that species, 
Hab, Ceylon, 
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