ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 



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PLATE 29. 



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GYMNOPTERIS VESTITA (Wall.) Underwood 



POLYPODIACEAE 



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Grammitis vestila Wall., List 12 (1828). ' ' > 



Gymnogramma vestita Presl, Tent. 218 (1838); HK. Ic. PI. t. 115; HK. BK. Syn. Fil. 379; 

 Christ Farnkraut. Erde 66. 



Syngramma vestita Moore, Ind. LX (1857). 

 Neurogramme vestita Diels in Nat. Pfl. Fam. I. 4. 262 



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Rhizome rather thick, short, obliquely ascending, clothed with dense silky yellow 

 linear-subulate scales; stipes 7-15 cm. long, wiry, but rigid, shining ebeneous, more or 

 less furfuraceous, the scales at the base are dense and similar to those on rhizome; . 

 fronds 15-30 cm. long, 3-4 cm. broad, simply pinnate under a larger terminal pinna, 

 pinnae 7-14 on each side, in distinct subopposte or alternate pairs, ovate or cordate- 

 ovate or oblong, entire, often with an auricle at the superior base, obtusish, the 

 lower ones distinctly stalked, the upper subsessile, the middle 2-2.5 cm. long, 7-12 

 mm broad; texture thick, but flaccid, both sides, especially the under, densely coated 

 with fine velvety ferruginous hairs; veins flabellate towards the edge; sori forked, on 

 the veins, almost completely hidden in hairs, indusium destitute. 



Distribution; Himalayas to China: Yunnan, Szechwan, Shensi, Kansu, Chihli. 



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Plate 29. Fig. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. A pinna, showing venation and disposition of 

 sori (x 3). 3. Sporangium (x 149). 4. Scale from the base of stipe (x 27). 5. Hair from the under 

 side of pinna (x 27). 6. Hair from the upper side of pinna (x 27). 7. Scales from rhizome (x 27). 



