ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PUATE e202 
DRYNARIA FORTUNE! (Kze.) J. Smith 
POLYPODIACE 
DRYNARIA FORTUNE! (Kze.) J. Smith in Bot. Voy. Herald. 425 (1857); Diels in Engl. u. 
Prantl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1: 4. 330 (1899); C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 247 (x905); Acta Hort. 
Gotheb, 1: 106 (1924). 
Polypodium Fortunei Kze. apud Mett. Farngatt. Polyp. rar t. 3 f. 42-45 (1857); Hk. Sp. Fil 5: 
95 (1864); Hk. et Bak. Syn. Fil. 367 (1868); Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde 119 (1897); Baker, 
Journ. Bot (1888) 230; Franch. Pl. David. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. II. 10: 121 (1887); Christ, 
in Warburg, Monsunia 1: 63 (1900); Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. (901) 297. 
Drynaria quercifolia Hk. (non J. Sm.) Journ. Bot. (1857) 357. 
?Poly podinm biforme Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 827 (1790): Sw. Syn. Fil. 62 (1806). 
Poly podium quercifolia Hk. (non L. 1753) in Blakiston, Five Months on the Yangtze 366 (1682). 
An epiphytic fern on tree trunks or rocks. Rhizome wide-creeping, fleshy, thick as 
a finger, densely clothed in bright ferruginous, frizzy, linear-subulate scales with long- 
fimbriate margin; fronds dimorphous, the sterile ones sessile, reddish-brown (without 
chlorophyll), dry, coriaceous, nitente, imbricate, with coarse venation, 5-7 cm long, 3-6 cm 
broad, broadly ovate, cordate at base, acute at apex, margin crenate below, lobato- 
pinnatid in the upper half with 4-6 pairs of deltoid, very acute, entire lobes 1-1.5 cm 
long, shining glabrous above, shortly pubescent on costa and veins beneath; the fertile ones 
25-40 cm long, including winged stipe 5-8 cm long, 14-18 cm broad at middle, oblong, 
acute, pinnatifid nearly down to rachis; segments patent, 7-13-jugate under the caudate 
apex, 7-9 cm long, 2-3 cm broad above the broadened base, lanceolate, acute or obtusish, 
margin with remote incisions, the lowest ones somewhat shorter, followed by a few 
auricles, the upper ones gradually shortened, sinuses broad, roundish or acute at bottom: 
texture crass chartaceous, green and glabrous on both sides; venation prominent on both 
sides, lateral veins distinct, oblique, connected by transverse veins, forming 4-5 quadri- 
angular soriferous areole, filled with free or netted included veinlets; sori large, roundish, 
copious, regularly seriate, 2-4 between costa and margin, one in each 4-angular areola, ex- 
indusiate. 
Chekiang: Chusan, Robert Fortune; Ningpo, Hancock 25; Cooper (1884); Taichow, R. C. Ching 
1580; Ping-yang Hsien, H. H. Hu 96; Wen-chow, K. Ling 7407 (1924); Siachw Hsien, R. C. Ching 1580. 
Kiangsi: Iiukiang, Lu-shan, A. N. Steward 2661; Kwai-in Chiao (Goddess of Mercy Bridge), R.C. Ching, 
numerous specimens; C. E. DeVol 22, August 1, 1933; Tsoongjen, Y. Tstang 10228. Kwei-chow, Gan- 
chow, Cavalerie 3711, 7797. Hupeh: Ichang, Maires (1880); Patung Hsien, Henry 3704; Wilson 2646. 
Szechwan: Mt. Omei, E. Faber 1072; Brown 73; Chung-chow, Limprichte (1913); Col. Sarel; R. Francis 
(1870); Blakiston in Herb, Hk.; Ho-chuan Hsien, Hopkinson 108, May 2, 1930. Yunnan: Mengtze, Han- 
cock 112; Mile, Henry 10177 A, 10177B. WKwangtung: North River, Tutcher 10626; Lo-fau Shan, C. Ford 
(1833); Swatow, Thai-young, Dalziel, Sept. 1898; Gerlach; Lien-chow, Matthew, Dec. 1907; Lokchong, N. 
K. Chun 42423; C. L. Tso 21538; Yingtak, Wantong Shan, H. Y. Liang 60590; Lungtau Shan, Y. K. 
Wang 31707. Kwangsi: Lungchow, Morse 2; Wu-chow, S.S. Sin & K.K.Wang 6 (1926); Lu-chen 
Hsien, Tze Poo, R. C. Ching 5554. Fukien: Foochow, R. Fortune 34 (type); La Touche, Forbes 2492; L. 
Y. Tai 11170; T. S. Ging 7104; Ku-shan, T. S. Ging 6848; Lung-lau, Alexander; Amoy, Medhurst in 
Herb. Hance 1409; Yuenfu, Warburg; Chang-chow, H. H. Chung 903; Hinghwa, H. H. Chung 971; Sam-sa 
Inlet, Matthew, Oct. 6, 1907. . 
Also Formosa and Tonkin. 
A common epiphytic fern in the warm parts of China and differs from D. querci- 
folia (L.) J. Sm. of Tropic Asia in much smaller size in all parts and the large uniseriate 
sori between lateral veins. 
fs Plate 192. Fig. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. Portion of segment, showing venation and 
position of sori (x 6). 3. Scale from rhizome (x 16). 4. Hairs on underside of sterile leaf (x 76). 
