ICONES FILICUM S1NICARU.M 



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PLATE 38. 



VITTARIA PAUCIAREOLATA Chin 



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POLYPODIACEAE 



VITTARIA PAUCIAREOLATA Ching in Sinensia 1: 11 (1929). 



Rhizome creeping, rather thick; scales dense, blackish; lanceolate with a long 

 hair-pointed apex, distinctly reticulate, 5 mm. long; fronds remote, grass-like, 90-130 

 cm. long (including stipes, which are 10-14 cm. long, terete, naked), 1.3-1.5 cm. broad, 

 linear, tape-like, pendulous, gradually attenuate from 2/3 way downward into the stipe, 

 but not or very slightly narrowed towards a broad rounded or blunt apex; texture 

 subcoriaceous, translucent, flaccid, midrib flattened and indistinct on both surfaces, 

 lateral veins slender, 3-4 subparallel to the midrib, translucently distinct and connected 

 by a transverse intramarginal vein, not rarely forked and often towards the apex of 

 the frond scantily anastomosing into narrow linear meshes; sort long, reaching from near 

 the base to the very apex, sunk in an extrorse marginal groove, i/ro cm. deep. 



Distribution: Kwangsi, Hainan. 



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Plate 38. Fig. i. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. A cross section of frond (x 7). 3. A cross section 

 of soriferous margin, showing inducium (x 50). 4. Scales from rhizome (x 36). 





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