DIPLAZIUM. 



DlPLAZIUM FRAXINIFOLIUM. (Wall.) Caudex ascending copiously fibrous nigro-paleaceous at the apex, stipites 

 aggregated often a foot long brown subrobust below chiefly laxly and deciduously nigrescenti-paleaceous, fronds 1-1 \ foot long 

 subcoriaceous firm subnitent brown when dry pinnate, pinnae 3-11 remote petioled patent 6-10 inches long broadly oblong-lanceolate 

 finely acuminate entirely or very obscurely serrate towards the apex subobliquely cuneate at the base, veins fasciculate twice or thrice 

 dichotomous parallel copious all free (rarely here and there anastomosing) sori copious linear- elongate extending from the costa nearly to 

 the margin, involucres narrow.— Hook. Sp. FiL iii. 240, — Wall. Cat. n. 194. — Hook 2nd Cent, of Ferns t. 19; — Diplazium,TPaW. Herb. 

 1823. — Moore Ind. FiL p. 133 ; — Diplazium elegans {veins free), Hook in Kew. Gard. Misc. ix. p. 343, — C. Wright, in Ringgold and 

 Eogen's Herb of U. S, expl. exp, ; — D. falcatum, Don. 1 — Aspl. Donianum, Metten, Asplen. p. 178. 



The specimen figured is from the Khasya Hills, (Dr. Thomson.) 



Hab, Penang, Singapore, Khasya and Assam, Hongkong, 



PLATE No, LXIX. 



