ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PEATE .352 
WOODWARDIA HARLANDII Hooker 
POLY PODIACEAE 
WOODWARDIA HARLANDII Hooker, Fil. Fxot. t. 7 (1857); C. Chr. Ind, Fil. 658 
(1906); Nakai, Tokio Bot. Mag. 39:102 (1925); Ching, Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. 
Biol. 1: 148 (1930); ibid. 2: 2 (1931); Wu, Polyp. Yaoshan. in Bull. Dept. 
Biol. Sun Yatsen Univ. n. 3: 280 t. 95 (1932); Ogata, Ic. Fil. Jap. 5: t. 
250 (1933). 
Lorinseria Harlandti J. Sm. Hist. Fil. 311 (1675). 
Woodwardia Kempti Cop. Phil. Journ. Sci. Bot. 3: 280 (1908). 
Rhizome wide-creeping, hypogaeous, thick; scales broadly lanceolate, acuminate, 
brown, entire; frond uniform or subdimorphous, far apart, stipe variable in length, 
in fertile frond about 40 cm long, in sterile frond about half as long, straminous, 
naked or sparingly scaly below; lamina variable, from simple to trifid or regularly 
pinnate, or even irregularly bipinnatifid (W. Kempii), in pinnate forms ovate-detoid, 
rounded at base, about 30 cm long, 20 cm broad, pinnae 2-3 on each side, more or 
less connected by a narrow wing along rachis, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about 20 
cm long, 2-3 cm broad, the terminal segment much the longest, margin sinuate, rather 
irregularly serrulate; texture subcoriaceous; veins quite visible in young state but 
obscure in fully grown leaves, regularly anastomosing in 3 rows of elongate, oblique, 
large, subhexagonal areolae; sori linear-oblong, rather short, in pairs, close to the 
midrib, indusium membranaceous, vaulted, opening towards midrib. 
Hongkong. Dr. Harland (type); Lorraine; Victoria Peak, C. Wilford 15; Mat- 
thew 859, 360, 361 (1904). Kwangtung: Tai-mo Shan, Bodinier 1191; Loh-fau Shan, 
C. Ford (1883); Swatow, Thai-yong, Dr. Dalziel, July, 1901; Lockchong, N. K. Chun, 
42688; Yao Shan, S. P. Ko 51978. Kwangsi: Yao Shan, Pe-niu, S. S. Sin & K. K. 
Wang 177 (1928). Hainan: Ng Chi Leng, Fan-yah, C. L. Tso N. K. Chun 44180, 
Oct. 26, 1932, in forest ravine. 
Also Formosa and Tonkin. 
An unique species of the genus, differing from all other known Asiatic species in 
simple or trifid or simple pinnate frond, with 2-3 pairs of linear-lanceolate, long segments. 
W. Kempii Cop. is only a form with pinnae being more or less lobed. 
Plate 52. Fig. 1. habit sketch (natural size). 2. section of a fertile pinna, showing venation 
and position of sori (x3). 3. scales from rhizome (x50). 
