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10. DiPLAZiUM LONGiFOLiuM. {Dou.) Caudex erect, small, 
densely clothed with the bases of old stipes, paleaceous, stipes tufted 
5-6 inches long, fronds broad-lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous, 
a span to 14 inches long, pinnated, pinnatifid at the apex, pinnae, on 
slender petiole?, 1^-3 inches long, very patent, broad-lanceolate, 
falcate, sharply acuminated, truncated and auricled at the superior 
base, inferior base excised, the margin more or less deeply lobed, 
lobes as well as the auricles spinulosely serrate ; costa slender, flex- 
uose, vein-like ; veins in oblique 
fascicles corresponding to each 
lobe, dicho,tomous lowest supe- 
rior branch only soriferous ; sori 
mostly asplenioid, linear, neither 
attaining the costa nor the mar- 
gin. Do7t. Prod. Fl. Nep. 7, under 
Asplenium. Diplaziumlobulosum, 
Bedd. F. B. /. /. 247. Hook. 
Sp. Fil. t. 141. Syn. Fil. 234. 
Mr. Clarke has placed this in 
Asplenium, but there are diplazioid 
indusia on my specimens, and on 
some of thoseat Kew. Asplenium 
trapeziforme i^Q^).,Bedd. F. S. I. 
t. 134, is not at all allied here, as 
suggested by Mr. Clarke. 
Nepal and Kumaon, 6,000- 
8,000 feet. 
11. DiPLAZiUM TOMENTosuM. {Hook.) Caudcx 1-2 inches, 
erect, sending down wiry black roots ; stipes 6-9 inches long, firm, 
erect; fronds deltoid-lanceolate, 6-12 inches long, 3-4 inches 
broad at base and gradually narrowing upwards ; pinnae numerous. 
NO. 87 
]MPLAZIUM LONGIFOLIUM 
[Don. 
the lowest pair deflexed, the others horizontal, 
I inch broad, 
narrow-oblong, somewhat falcate, usually auricled at base on the 
upper side, pinnatifid half or two-thirds down to the midrib in the larger 
fronds, subentire in the smaller ones ; segments fakate, i incli broad ; 
