ASPLENIUM. 



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A. (Diplazium) Thwaitesii— Dip-laz'-i-um ; Thwaites'-I-i (Thwaites's), 

 Hooker. 



This very fine, stove species, native of Ceylon, appears to he intermediate 

 between the popular A. japonicum and A. decussation. Its fronds, 1ft. long, 

 4in. broad, and borne on slender, g Te en stalks Gin. long and densely clothed 

 with strong, white, woolly hairs, are produced from a wide-creeping rhizome. 

 They are furnished with eight to ten pairs of distant leaflets besides the 



Fig, 128, Frond of Asplenium thelypteroicles 

 (i nat. size). 



terminal one, which is only pinnatifid (cut half-way clown to the midrib). 

 The largest of these leaflets, 2in. long and Jin. broad, are cut clown two-thirds 

 of the way to the stalk into notched lobes about |in. deep ; they are of 

 a soft, papery texture, pale green in colour, and hairy on both surfaces. The 

 sori (spore masses) reach half-way to the edge.— Hooker, Species Filicum, hi., 

 p. 250. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 134. Beddome, Ferns of 

 British India, t. 291. 



