ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 70 
LEPISORUS OLIGOLEPIDUS (Baker) Ching 
POLY PODIACEAE 
LEPISORUS OLIGOLEPIDUS (Baker) Ching, Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. 4: 80 (1933). 
Polypodium oligolepidum Baker, Gard. Chron. n.s. 14: 494 (1880); Takeda, Notes, R. Bot. Gard. 
Edinb. 8: 276 (1915); C.Chr. Contr. U.S.Nat. Herb. 26: 316 (1931), partim. 
Polypodium lineare var. oligolepidum Christ, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 52: Mém. 1. 15 (1905); C. 
Chr. Ind. 540 (1906) 
Polypodium trabeculatum Cop. Phil. Journ. Soc. Bot. 3: 283 (r908). 
Polypodium lineare Takeda, l.c. 269 (Henry 7795). 
Rhizome rather thick, creeping, densely scaly; scales black, lanceolate-subulate 
from a broad ovate base, rigid, structurally similar to those in L. Thunbergianus (Kaulf.); 
froud lanceolate, 15-30 cm long, 1.5-2 cm broad at the middle, shortly stipitate; texture 
coriaceous; veins hidden, color obscurely blackish, underside densely clad in small, 
ovate, cuspidate, adpressed, blackish scales, glabrous and punctate on the upper side; 
sort large, rounded, closer to the midrib than to the margin. 
Kiangsi: Lu-shan, Maires (type); Dr. Shearer (1873). Hupeh: I-chang, Nanto, 
A. Henry 3049. Kwangtung: Lienchow, C. G. Matthew, December 4, 1907. Kweichow: 
Gan-chow, Cavalerie 7795, 155; Pin-fa, Cavalerie 1096, 3748, 1597; Gan-pin, Bodinier 2017, 
Yinkiang, Y. Tsiang 7848, December 20, 1930; Kwangcheng, Y. Tsiang 8607. Yunnan: 
Tsekou (Haut Mekong), Sowli2 1060 (partim); Salween, Capt. Kingdon Ward, Jan. 2, 
1924; Tong-Chow, E.E.Maire; Esquirol 3750; Mengtze, A. Henry 9062; Hancock 104 
(1894-95); Tchong-Shan, Ducloux 39. 
Burma: Sadon, J.F.Rock 7494. 
Plate 7o. Fig. 1. habit sketch (natural size). 2. peltate paraphysis from a sorus (X50). 3. 
scales from rhizome (X50). 
