DIPLAZIUM J ERDONI. (Bedd.) Caudex? stipes up to 2 feet long, firm angled, glabrous, but furnished with linear "٢ 
scales especially near the base ; fronds ample, 2 feet and more long, 16-20 inches broad ovate tripinnate, ponne alternate, the lower pairs 
rather smaller than the next pair, and the upper ones gradually diminishing in size ; secondary pinn« up to 3 inches long by a little 
more than 1 inch broad, ending in a long serrated acuflination and on cut down nearly to the rachis into oblong sharply- -toothed 
slightly falcate acuminate pinnules, which are about 4 an inch long and + inch broad and sessile from a broad base, and glabrous on 
both sides ; teeth or segments 6-8 on each side, falcate acute and cut down 4 o 
forked in each segment ; sori oblong 8-12 to each tertiary pinnule rising from close to the costule, and not nearly reaching to the margin ; 
the lower basal tooth or segment of each of the lower basal tertiary pinnules is larger than the rest, and is furnished with 2, 3 sori, 
Himalayas (Dr. Jerdon.) 
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r 4 of the way to the costule ; veins prominent, pinnate or 
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