1 82 Fekns of British India aisd Ceylon. 
below; fronds up to i6 inches long, pinnate, with numerous pinnae; 
pinnae sessile, about 6 inches long,' by li broad, cut down very 
regularly throughout two-thirds to the rachis into oblong blunt suben- 
tire lobes, which are of equal breadth, inch) throughout to the apex ; 
texture firm ; rachis slightly scaly ; veinlets simple, each occupied 
in its entire length from costule to apex by a sorus. Hook. Syn. Fil. 
p. 236 {in part,) Bedd. F. B. I. t. 246. 
Malacca and Penang ; differs from the North India plant in its 
longer lobes with quite parallel edges, its simple veins, and its longer 
sori. The figure quoted above is from the Malay plant (thougli 
supposed at the time to be from North India), and there is another 
specimen of the same in the Kew Herbarium, labelled Khasya, 
Griffith, but it is probable that Griffith obtained it from Malacca. 
15. DiPLAZiUM Stoliczk^. {Bedd) Stipe and rachis gla- 
brous or subglabrous ; fronds i-i| feet long, by 10 inches broad, 
pinnate ; pinnae numerous, the lowest pair slightly the largest, and 
only a few of the upper ones gradually diminishing, the lower 2-3 
pairs opposite or subopposite, the rest alternate ; texture subcoria- 
ceous ; pinnae very shortly petioled, 5-6 inches long, i-i^ inch 
broad, gradually tapering towards the apex, cut down |^ to |- of the 
way to the rachis, into oblong, rounded pinnules, which are more 
than \ inch broad, and very regularly crenated ; main veins slightly 
wavy ; veinlets simple or forked towards their apex or below their 
centre, all very conspicuous ; sori 3-7 to each pinnule or segment 
(on the lower veins only), extending from the main vein § of the way 
to the margin. Bedd. F. B. I. p. 13 a7td f. 361. 
North India (Dr. Jerdon), probably Khasya. This is not in the 
Kew Herbarium, and had not been seen by Mr. Clarke when he 
wrote his Review. 
Var. /3 HiRSUTiPES. Differs from the type by the stipes and 
often the rachis being very fibrillose, in the pinnae being narrowed, and 
the lower ones generally more or less reduced, and in the pinnules 
being much less incised. Diplazium sorzogonense, Hook. Syii. 
