ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 168 
CONIOGRAMME PROCERA (Wall.) Fée 
POLY PODIACEZ: 
CONIOGRAMME PROCERA (Wall.) Fée, ro Mém. 22 (1865); Hieron. Hedwigia 57: 317 (1916); 
C. Chr. Ind. Fil. Suppl. 11. 10 (1913-17); Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 26: 307 (1931). 
Grammitis procera Wall. List no. 3 (1828, nom. nud.). 
Gymnogramme javanica Hook. Sp. Fil. 4: 145 (1862), pro parte. 
Contogramme parvipinnula Hayata, Ic. Pl. Form. 4: 237 f. 166 (1914); C. Chr. Ind. Fil. Suppl. 
II. ro (1913-17). j 
Rhizome creeping, thick asa small finger, sparcely scaly; scales light brown, lanceo- 
late, entire; frond distant, stipe to 60 cm long, over 0.5 cm thick near base, light strami- 
nous, deeply bisulcate above, lamina ample, over 60 cm long, 50 cm broad at base, ovate- 
deltoid, fully bipinnate under the simple pinnate apical part; pinnae about 10-jugate, 
patent, petiolate, the basal ones much the longest, to 30 cm long, 9 cm broad, impari- 
pinnate with 10-13 pairs of opposite (or subopposite) pinnules to 5 cm long, 2 cm broad, 
with sessile or slightly adnate, broadened rotundo-truncate base, caudate apex and crenate- 
serrated margin, the upper several pairs of pinne gradually shortened with 9-7-5 pairs 
of pinnules respectively under the much longer terminal one, the upper middle pinne 
with only 3-2-1 pairs of pinnules under still longer terminal one, the uppermost 3-5 pairs 
generally simple, under the similar terminal one; texture thin herbaceous, green and 
glabrous on both sides; veins fine, forked above base, veinlets parallel, with slightly en- 
larged tip, extending to the base of serrature; sori linear, forked; extending to little over 
half way to the margin. 
Yunnan: Mengtze, Hancock 16; Schweli-Salween divide, G. Forrest 25233; Handel- 
Mazzetti 7057; without locality, Delavay (1886); Salween, G. Forrest 26234 (1925); H. T. 
Tsai 52486, 51765, Feb. 1932; Tchen Fong Shan, E. E. Mazre; between Tengyuch and 
Burmese border, J. F. Rock 7328. 
India orientalis: Nepal, Wallich 3 (type). 
Formosa: Arisan, B. Hayata et S. Sasaki, Jan. 1912. 
One of the most distinct species of the genus, being characterized by fully bipin- 
nate lower half of lamina, with the basal pinna having 10-13 pairs of small, opposite, 
sessile or slightly adnate pinnuies with caudate apex and broadened rotundo-truncate 
base, and by thin herbaceous light green glabrous leaves. Tsai’s no. 52486 represents an 
unusual large form with pinnules in lower pinna to 15 cm long, 3.5 cm broad. 
Plate 168. Fig. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. Portion of pinnule, showing serrature and 
sori (x 4). 3. Scale from rhizome (x 30). 
