ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 



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PLATE 47. 





LOXOGRAMME CHINENSIS Chin 



cr 



POLYPODIACEAE 



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LOXGGRAMME CHINENSIS Ching in Sinensia 1: 13 (1929). 



Rhizome wide-creeping, 2-3 mm. thick, scales dark brown, dense, adpressed or 

 subpatent, broad at base, gradually attenuate to a long subulate apex, distinctly 



subapproximate, pale green, glabrous 



clathrate; stipes 



frond 



throughout, somewhat dimorphic, 5-14 cm. long, to 7 mm. broad in the broadest part, 

 the sterile ones broader (9 mm.) and generally shorter, broadest in the upper one-third, 

 slowly narrowed downward to the base or a short stipe, about 2 mm. broad near the 

 base, apex acute to blunt, margin entire, revolute, somewhat undulate; midrib slender, 

 raised above, flattened or slightly grooved below, veins and veinlets hidden; texture 

 coriaceous, but flaccid; sori oblique to subparallel, more often tending to be confluent, 

 not costal, but well extending to the margin, 3-8 mm. long, confined to the upper one- 

 third portion of the frond. , 



Distribution: Kwangsi. 



Plate 47. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. A portion of frond, showing venation and sori 

 (x 4). 3. Scales from rhizome (x 24). 





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