ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 59 
LEPISORUS SUBLINEARIS (Baker) Ching 
POLY PODIACEAE 
LEPISORUS SUBLINEARIS (Baker) Ching, Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. 4: 78 (1933). 
Polypodium sublineare Baker; Takeda, Notes, R. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 8: 276 (1915); C. Chr. Ind. 
Fil. Suppl. 28 (1913-16); Hand-Mzt. Symb. Sinic. 6: 43 (1929); C. Chr. Contr. U. S. Nat. 
Herb. 26: 320 pl. 22 (1931). 
Rhizome rather thick, creeping, hypogzeous, densely scaly; scales ovate-acuminate, 
fuscous, coarsely clathrate with large, clear, almost isodiametrical luminz, concolorous, 
margin with short, stout, protruding teeth; frond rather approximate, 25-35 cm long, 
2-2.5 cm broad, broadly lanceolate, broadest at the lower one-third, attenuate to a 
short stipe, margin plane; texture thick chartaceous, or subcoriaceous, color brown; 
venation obscure; sovt medium-sized, rounded, medial, extending halfway downward. 
Yunnan: Tengchwan Lin Mt., A. Henry 9062A (type); Mengtze, Henry 11827, 
11827A, 11827B, 11828; Hancock 83; Mekong, Gebauer; Yuangchang, Henry 13608. 
Szechuan: Moupin, David (1870). 
Burma: Between Sadon and Yunnan border, J. F. Rock 7424, 7507. 
A large fern in the genus Lepisorus, and a close ally to L. loriformis (Wall.) 
in scale-character, differs in stipitate leaves and rounded medial sori. 
Plate 59. Fig. 1. habit sketch (natural size). 2. peltate paraphysis from a sorus (X50). 3. 
scale from rhizome (X50). 
