ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 



81 ' 



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PLATE 40 



ANTROPHYUM PETIOLATUM Baker 



POLYPODIACEAE 



ANTROPHYUM PETIOLATUM Baker mss. Christ in Bull. Geogr. Bot. Mans: (1902) 202; 



Baker in Kew Bull. (1906) 14; Matthew in Journ. Linn. Soc. 39: 342 (1911). 



Rhizome short, erect; scales basal, dark brown, linear-subulate, rather dense, 

 membranaceous; leaves several together, stipes naked, green, compressed, 7-14 cm. 

 long; frond obovate-cuneate, long-cuspidate, 10-13 cm. long, 5-6.5 cm. broad, broadest 

 at the upper 2/3 or still higher up; texture carnoso-coriaceous, green and glabrous on 

 both surfaces; vein rather distinct, vertical, rarely anastomosing, areolae narrow, above 

 2 cm. long, 3 mm. broad; sort copious, slightly immersed in broad shallow grooves, 

 sometimes jointed at the ends. 



Distribution: Yunnan, Kweichow, Kwangsi. 



Nearest to A. plantagineam Klf., yet distinct for its much longer stipe, broadly 

 obovate-cuneate frond with cuspidate apex and much broader, closer sori only super- 

 ficially immersed in broad shallow grooves. First collected in Yunnan by A. Henry, 



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later in 1898 by Pere Bodinier in Kweichow and recently known from several localities 



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in Kwangsi. As seen in its natural habitat, it generally grows on dripping or shaded 

 rocky cliff by mountain torrents. 



Plate 40. Fig. 1. Habit sketch (natural size.) 2. A portion of the frond, showing venation and 

 sori (x 2). 3. Sporangium (x 76) 4. Hairs from the roots (x 76) 5. Scales from rhizome (X30) 















