tab. XVII. 
ASPLENITTM (DlPLAZIUM) LOBBIANUM, Hook. 
Fronde sesquipedali ovato-acuminata subcoriaceo-membra- 
nacea pinnata, pinnis 5-6-uncias longis 1| unciam latis 
petiolatis patentibus oblongis acuminatis paululum falcatis 
basi superiore truncata rachi pai'allela rarius subauiiculatis, 
inferiore cuneata vel subrotundata marginibus serratis, pinnis 
supremis sensim minoribus confluentibus, venis subhorizon- 
tabbus fasciculatis 1-terve dichotomis, Boris solitariis (asplen- 
ioideis) vel geminatis (diplazioideis) non raro subscolopen- 
drioideis nec costam nec marginem attingentibus. 
Hab. Java, Thos. Lobb. 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, nat. size. f. 2. Portion of a fertile 
pinna, magnified. 
Cent. 2, i, 17. 
