ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 



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PLATE 22. 



ASPLENIUM FINLAYSONIANUM Wallich 



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POLYPODIACEAE 



ASPLENIUM FINLAYSONIANUM Wall., HK. Ic. PI. t. 937 (1854); HK. BK. Syn. Fil. 245; 



Christ Farnkraut. Erde. 199; Diels in Nat. Pfl. Fam. 1. 4, 239; C. Chr. Ind. 

 Ill (1906); v. A. v. R. in Malay. Ferns 476 (1908). 



Rhizome short , thick, obliquely ascending, densely clothed with rigid blackish 

 lanceolate scales; stipes 15-23 cm. long, green, subcompressed, densely clothed near the 

 base in the scales similar to those on the rhizome, the upper part and rachis subglabrous 

 or clothed in blackish subulate-lanceolate scales; fronds 20-45 cm. long, 10-20 cm. 

 broad, simply pinnate under an entire or subrepand or 3-lobed terminal pinna which 

 is much the largest, lateral pinnae i-6, subopposite or alternate, the lower ones some- 

 what larger than the ones next above, 7-12 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, the point very 

 acuminate, the base equal or subequal, very gradually narrowed on both sides to a 

 distinct petiole, the edge entire or subrepand; texture subcoriaceous or chartaceous; 

 veins subflabellate, very oblique, slightly anastomosing towards the edge, sometimes 

 bounded by an irregular intramarinal line; son often 3.5-5 cm. long, scattered 

 irregularly, near the costa, but falling short far off from the margin. 



Distribution: India, Malaya, China: Yunnan. 



Evidently rather a rare plant in China, recorded so far only from Yunnan by 

 A. Henry. 



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Plate 22. Fig. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. A pinna, showing venation and sori 

 (natural size). 3. Scale from rhizome (x 30). 



