ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 84 
MICROSORIUM HYMENODES (Kunze) Ching 
POLY PODIACEAE 
MICROSORIUM HYMENODES (Kuuze) Ching, Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. 4: 301 (1933). 
Polypodium hymenodes Kunze, Linnaea 23: 279 (1850); Mett. Fil. Hort. Lips. 37 t. 25, f. 4o- 
41 (1856); Takeda, Notes, R. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 8: 287 (1915); C. Chr. Ind. Fil. Suppl. 
54 (1913-17). 
Polypodium superficiale var. semilinearis Clarke, Ferns N. Ind. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. 
Bot. 1. 558 (1880), 
Polypodium subhemionitideum Christ, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 7: 5 (1899). 
Rhizome scandent, more or less compressed, sparcely scaly; scales spreading, 
fusco-brown, ovate, acuminate, clathrate; frond far apart, variable in size, 15-30 cm long, 
1.7-3 cm broad, gradually attenuate to both ends, stipe short, 3-5 cm long, margin 
entire, more or less wavy; texture herbaceous, or papyraceous, naked, color brownish- 
green; veims rather distinct; sori large, rounded to oblong, scattered over the entire 
under surface (var. sparsiorum Takeda), or sometimes placed near to the margin, 
leaving a broad sterile space on each side of costa (var. marginale Takeda). 
Yunnan: Mengtze, A. Henry 9265B; Hancock 98; Tengyueh, Forrest 9453; Long- 
kang, Delavay 4928. Kweichow: Kwei-yang, Bodinier 2088. Szechuan occid: E. H. Wilson 
2633; Kuan Hsien, W. P. Fang 2100; Mt. Omei, W. P. Fang 2493. Kwangsi: San-fang, 
Chu-fang Shan, R. C. Ching 5749. 
A tall scandent fern, clinging to the trunk of trees up to 20 feet high; habit and 
size are exactly similar to M. Buergerianum (Miq.), differs in frond of thinner texture 
with quite visible venation, gradually attenuate base, and much larger sori. Geogra- 
phically, this ferns is known only from Northern India and West China as well as 
Tonkin. 
Plate 84. Fig. 1. habit sketch (natural size). 2. scale from rhizome (x50). 
