236 NEW CHINESE FERNS. 
not include the heterogeneous plants referred to Coussarea by subsequent 
authors, nor yet the whole of the species recently published by Miquel 
and others as new Furamee. 
Notice of Two New FERNS from China; by Sie W. J. HOOKER, 
D.C.L., F.R.A. and L.S. 
(Tas. I. and IL.) 
ASPIDIUM (Lastrea) PoDoPHYLLUM, Hook. 
Fronde ovato-lanceolata glabra coriaceo-pergamentacea nitida pinnata, 
pinnis lanceolatis acuminatis paululum sensim faleatis grosse ser- 
ratis seu lobato-subpinnatifidis petiolatis, suprema basi subpinnata, 
venis internis (minime prominulis), venulis 2—3 inferioribus sori- 
feris, involucris. orbicularibus sinu angusto, stipite frondem sub- 
zequante, rachi costisque (subtus przcipue validis) pallide fuscis. 
Tas. I. : 
Has. China; Hong-Kong, Major Champion (n. 560); Chusan, Dr. 
Alexander. 
With the caudex of this I am unacquainted. The species seems 
quite new, at least I fail to find it described in any work. The texture 
of the frond is rather that of the Polystichum than the Lastrea group, 
and in a dry state the involucre has, under a moderate magnifying 
power, quite the appearance of being entire, orbicular, and peltate : but 
a more careful inspection will show. them to have a narrow and rather 
deep sinus, where the point of attachment is. In referring this to 
Asprpium, § Lastrea, I do not mean it to be understood that I con- 
sider either * 4spidium," Sw., or Lastrea, Pr., the proper name for the 
genus of this plant. In the present most confused, and a daily increas- 
ingly confused, state of the classification of the Ferns, I think it better 
in the present case to retain the genus Aspidium of Swartz, and refer 
to the section, or genus if so it be, by which Presl and J. Smith would 
call it; viz. Zastrea. Since the days of Swartz, and of Presl's * Ten- 
tamen Pteridologie,’ M. Fée has perhaps justly considered Aspidium 
Filix-Mas to be the type of the genus Aspidium, while Schott consti- 
tutes of it and its allies the genus Dryopteris; and Aspidium, according 
to Presl and J. Smith, includes Aspidium trifoliatum and other large- 
fronded species with reticulated veins: but each author has his parti- 
