ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 64 
LEPISORUS KUGHENENSIS (Wu) Ching 
POLYPODIACEAE 
LEPISORUS KUCHENENSIS (Wu) Ching, Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. 4: 69 (1932). 
Polypodium kuchenense Wu, Bull. Dept. Biol. Sun Yatsen Univ. n. 3: 276 pl. 129 (1932) 
Ching, ibid., n. 6. 29. 1933. 
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Rhizome thick, creeping over rocks, densely imbricatingly scaly; scales oblong- 
ovate, thin, light-brown, entire, dorsally affixed, finely reticulated, luminae medium- 
sized, clear, dimorphous, concolorous; frond far apart, about 30 cm long, 4-5 cm broad, 
broadly lanceolate, acuminate, very gradually attenuate to a thick, short stipe, margin 
thin, plane; texture herbaceous, color pale green, naked; venation quite distinct; sori 
large, roundish, somewhat nearer to the midrib. 
Kwangsi: Yao Shan, Ku-shen, S. S. Sin & K. K. Whang 2121, 8980, alt. 4,500 
feet, on rocks. 
An unique species, endemic in Yao Shan, in the eastern part of Kwangsi Province. 
Closely allied to L. excavatus (Bory) and particularly the form from the Himalayas, 
differs chiefly in herbaceous (not chartaceous) leaves to 5 cm broad at the middle, and 
large, submedial, superficial sori, not punctate on the upperside. 
Plate 64. Fig. 1. habit sketch (natural size). 2. portion of a lamina, showing venation and 
position of sori (x2). 3. peltate paraphysis from a sorus (X50). 4. scale from rhizome (x 50). 
