TAB. XVII. 
Asplenium (Diplazium) Lobbianum, Hook. 
Fronde sesquipedali ovato-acuminata subcoriaceo-membra- 
nacea pinnata, pinnis 5-6-uncias longis IJ unciam latis 
petiolatis patentibus oblongis acuminatis paululum falcatis 
basi superiore truncata racbi parallela rarius subauriculatis, 
inferiore cuneata vel subrotundata marginibus serratls, pinnis 
supremis sensim minoribus confluentibus, venis subhorizon- 
talibus fasciculatis 1-terve dicbotomis, soris solitariis (asplen- 
ioideis) vel geminatis (diplazioideis) non raro subscolopen- 
drioideis nec costam nec marginem attingentibus. 
Hab. Java, Thos. Ldbh, 1846. 
This may possibly be included among the 12 species of 
pinnated Diplazium of Java, enumerated by Blume : but the 
characters of that author are so very brief^ and unaccom- 
panied by figures, which are such great helps in critical 
species, that I had better avoid all allusion to them, and con- 
tent myself with saying, that among my own numerous 
diplazioid Asplenia^ there is none to which I can refer this : — 
nor can I find that it corresponds with any one known to me 
of other countries. 
I possess but one frond, and that without caudex or stipes. 
Fig. 1. Lowest pinna, not. size. f. 2. Portion of a fertile 
pinna, magnified. 
Cent. 2. t. 17. 
