ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 173 
ASPLENIUM FUGAX Christ 
POLYPODIACE: 
ASPLENIUM FUGAX Christ, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 52: Mém. 1. 53 (1905); Bull. Acad. Géogr. 
Bot. (1910) 13; C. Chr. Ind. Fil. rr2 (1905); Acta Hort. Gotheb. 1: 82 (1924). 
Rhizome short, erect, densely radicose; scales fusco-brown, ovate-lanceolate, entire; 
fronds cespitose, several together, stipe wiry, slender, green, naked, 2-4 cm long, lamina 
linear-lanceolate, 4-6 cm long, about 1 cm broad, bipinnatfid, often with prolongated and 
viviparous nodding apex; pinnae 8-11-jugate, opposite or subopposite, subsessile, broadly 
ovate, 5 mm each way, gradually smaller upwards, deeply pinnatifid into I-2 pairs of 
oblong-ovate, entire or bifid segments under the 3-2-fid or entire terminal segment; texture 
thin herbaceous, green, glabrous; veis simple and uninerved to each segment, not reaching 
the acute apex of segments; sov7 short-linear, one to each segment, imdusiwm linear, mem- 
branaceous, entire, those on the upper segments opening towards costa of pinnae, while 
those on the lower segments generally opening downward. 
Kweichow: Ouan-ly, Esquirol 3213 (type). Szechwan: Tchen-kou-ting, Farges 657. 
Yunnan: without locality, Henry. 
A distinct endemic fern, inhabiting dripping calcareous rocks and only closely re- 
lated to A. extguwm Bedd. from which it differs in much slender habit and less divided 
fronds. 
Plate 173. Fig. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2a-2b. Lateral pinne from base upwards, 
showing shape, pinnation, venation and sori (x 10). 3. Scale from rhizome (x 27). 
