ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 193 
DRYNARIA SINICA Dicls 
POLYPODIACEZ 
DRYNARIA SINICA Diels in Engl. Jahrb. 29: 208 (1900); C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 249 (1905); Acta 
Hort. Gotheb. 1: 106 (1924); Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17: 498 (1927). 
Polypodiwm Baronit Christ (non Baker 1886), Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Itat. n. s. 4: 100 t. 2. (1897) 
Farnkr. d. Erde 120 (1897). 
Drynarta Baronii Diels in Engl. u. Prantl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1: 4. 330 (1899); Christ, Bull. Soc. 
Bot. France 52: Mém. I. 23 (1905). 
Drynaria reducta Christ in C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 247 (1905), C. Chr. Bot. Gaz. 56: 332. 1913. 
Rhizome wide-creeping, fleshy, thick as a small finger, densely scaly; scales bright 
ferruginous, frizzy, lanceolate-subulate, densely fimbriate; fronds dimorphous, the sierile 
ones rather scarce, pale green or light brown, chartaceous, or subcoriaceous, sessile, to 10 
cm long, 4-5 cm broad at middle, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, pinnatifid down nearly to 
rachis with deltoid-lanceolate, acute segments 2-3 cm long, with the lowest ones much re- 
duced, glabrous beneath, pubescent above; fertile fronds distant, stipe 8-15 cm long, dark 
straminous, with narrow wing on each side running down nearly to the base, lamina 17- 
40 cm long, 7-II cm broad, oblong-elongate, pinnatifid down nearly to rachis, 14-20- 
jugate, patent, broadly linear-lanceolate, acute or bluntish, or rounded, the middle ones 
4-6 cm long, I-1.5 cm broad above the dilated base, the basal 1-2 pairs shortened or 
reduced into more pair of auricles, margin finely and closely serrate with low arcuate 
sharp teeth; texture crass chartaceous, green, more or less pubescent especially on rachis 
and costa above; venation distinct on both sides, lateral veins erecto-patent, intervening 
veinlets anastomosing in 3-4 rows of angular areole occasionally with one short included 
veinlets; sort large, roundish, costal, uniseriate on each side, near the upper base of lateral 
veins, 
Szechwan: Nanchuan, Rosthorn 3121 (type); Mt. Omei, Scallan: Ta-chien-lu, Soulie 
512 (1893); without locality, Wilson 5335; Mao-chow, F. T. Fang 21818; Tungnan Hsien, 
W. P. Fang 1452; Kangtien Hsien, W. P. Fang 3687; Hung-yuen Hsien, W. P. Fang 9081, 
9090; Drogochi, Harry Smith 4502; C. S. Liu 705, July 13, 1934; Ma-pien Hsien, T.T. Ya 
2509 (pro parte). Yunnan: Tong-chow, EF. E. Maire 1373, 1383 (1913); Tsekou, Monbeig 
277, Shensi: Ki Shan, Giraldi (type of Polypodium Baronit); Mt. Zulu, Giraldi, August, 
1894; Purdom 87. Kansu: Pingfan Hsien, R. C. Ching 481, torming dense carpet on 
moist foothill. 
This endemic species is closely related to the Himalayan D, Mollis Bedd., differs 
chiefly in less pubescent fertile leaves of thicker texture and the basal part of stipe being 
not of dead straw-colored appearance. 
Plate 192. Fig. 1. Habit sketch, (natural size). 2. Portion of segment showing venation, 
position of sori and serrature (x 6) 3. Scale from rhizome (x 16). 4. Hairs from the upper side of rachis 
(x 76). 5. Cross section of rhizome, showing arrangement of steles (x 4). 
