ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 79 
LEMMAPHYLLUM DRYMOGLOSSOIDES (Baker) Ching 
*~POLYPODIACEAE 
LEMMAPHYLLUM DRYMOGLOSSOIDES (Baker) Ching, Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. 4: r00 
(1933). 
Polypodium drymoglossoides Baker, Journ. Bot. (1887) 170; Diels in Engl. Jahrb. 29: 204 
(tg0r); Christ, Bull. Acad. Géogr. Bot. (rg02) 206 c. fig; C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 523 (1906); 
Takeda, Notes, R. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 8: 302 (1915); Hand-Mzt. Symb. Sinic. 6: 42 
(1929); C. Chr. Dansk Bot. Archiv. 6: 47 pl. V. f. 8-9 (1929). 
Polypodium moupinense Franchet, Nouv. Archiv. Mus. II. 10: 121 (1887); Christ, Bull. Acad. 
Géogr. Bot. (1906) 105. : 
Polypodium cyclophyllum Baker, Ann. Bot. 5: 473 (1891); C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 520 (1906). 
Riuzome slender, wide-creeping, greenish, sparcély scaly; scales light-brown, thin, 
coarsely clathrate, subulate from a broad, irregularly branched base; frond subdimorphous, 
distant, the sterile orbicular-ovate to oblong-ovate, 1-2 cm long, pale green, carnose, 
furnished with a few appressed scales’ on the underside; venation obscure ‘even under 
light; fertile frond generally spathulate, 3-6 cm long, below 1 cm broad; but not infre- 
quently almost similar to the sterile in outline; sovi medium-sized, distinct, or not 
infrequently the upper ones imperfectly fused. 
Hupeh: Ichang, A. Henry 1576 (type); Nanto, Henry 2965, 4892, 5963; Chang- 
yang, E. H. Wilson 1450, 2647. Anwhei: Sui-nin, K. K. Tsoong 4530, 117. Szechuan: 
Moupin, David; Henry 75324; Mt. Omei, Faber 1046; E. H. Wilson 5314; W. P. Fang 
5735; O-shan, W. P. Fang 8000 (1930); Hon-ya, W. P. Fang 8747 (1930). Chekiang: 
Tien-tai Shan, C. Y. Chiao 14719, August, 1927; Bunji islank, C. G. Matlhew, Sept. 30, 
1907; Ningpo, Hancock 32 (1877). Kiangsu: Soo-chow, Lin-yin Shan, C. G. Matthew, 
June 4, 1904; Wusih, Wei Shan, R. C. Ching 3430 (1927); I-shing, R. C. Ching & 
C. L. Tso 544; Nanking, Tsihsia Shan, Chen 196. Kweichow: Pin-fa, Cavalerie 627; 
Gaotsha, Handel-Mazzetti 10261; Van-ching Shan, Y. Tsiang 7619, 7748, 7952; Anlung, 
Y. Tsiang 9346, 7409; Tungtze, Y. Tsiang 5174, 4986; Houang-tsao-pa, Cavalerie 
7051, May, 1919. Hunan: Hsikwang Shan, Handel-Mazzetti. 
A very unstable fern as to the shape of leaves and conditions of sori, which both 
in some extreme forms appear hardly distinguishable from its relative, L. microphyllum 
Presl, species inhabiting a more southern area. 
Plate 79. Fig. 1. habit sketch (natural size). 2a. fertile leaf (x2). 2b. sterile leaf (<3). 3. 
peltate paraphysis from a sorus (X50). 4. scale from rhizome (x50). 
