ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 169 
OLEANDRA CUMINGII J. Smith 
POLYPODIACE 
OLEANDRA CUMINGI J. Smith, Journ. Bot. 3: 413 (1841, nom. nud.); Presl, Epim. Bot. 41 
(1849); Hk. Sp. Fil. 4: 158 (1860); Hk. et Bak. Syn. Fil. 303 (1874); Diels in Engl. 
u. Prantl: Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1: 4. 204 (1899); C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 466 (1905); Copel. 
Polyp. Phil. Isl. 49 (1905); Dunn & Tutcher, Fl. Kwangt. & Hongk. 349 (1912). 
Oleandra chinensis Hance, Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 18: 238 (1861); C. Chr. Ind. Fil. Suppl. III. 
132 (1934). 
Rhizome wide-creeping, densely scaly, scales lanceolate, long-acuminate, imbricate, 
ferruginousely brown, margin long-fimbriate; fronds 0.5-I cm apart, stipe dark 
straminous, hairy, articulated at 1-2 cm above base, lamina linear-lanceolate, 15-30 cm 
long, 2-3 cm broad, acuminate, gradually narrowed downward, with narrowly 
cartilaginous, wary and generally naked margin; texture papyraceous, rather sparcely 
and shortly pubescent beneath and with a few very fine appressed hairs above; veins 
fine, distinct, forked above base; sori irregularly 1-rowed, subcostal, indusium reniform, 
brown, hirsute. 
Kwangtung: Sichu Shan, Sampson 1998 in Herb. Hance (type of O. chinensis); 
Lofau Shan, Ford (1883); N. K. Chun 40930; North River, Feiloy Hap, Matthew, Nov. 
25, 1907; Canton, Peiyun Shan, H. Y. Liang 60252, July 3, 1930; White Cloud Hill, W. 
Hillebrand. Hongkong: Mt. Parker, Matthew, Oct. 12, 1907. 
Philippine Islands: Luzon, Cuming 60 (type). Also Malesia-Polynesia. 
Closely related to O. undulata (Willd.) Ching, from which it differs in characters 
as will be noted under that species. Upon a close comparison made in the herbarium at 
Kew in winter, 1930, I could see no tangible differences between the Philippine type and 
the southern Chinese plant, known as O. chinensis Hance. 
Plate 169. Fig. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. Portion of lamina, showing venation, sori 
and hairy under side (%* 4). 3- Scales from rhizome (x 16). 4. Hairs from the under side of lamina 
(x 50). 
