ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE or 
COLYSIS HENRYI (Baker) Ching 
POLYPODIACEAE 
COLYSIS HENRY! (Baker) Ching, Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. 4: 325 (1933). 
Gymnogramme Henryi Baker, Journ. Bot. (1887) 171. 
Gymnogramme macrophylla Baker, Journ. Bot. (1888) 230 (non Hook.). 
Selliguea Henry Christ, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 6: 879 (1898); Bull. Soc. Rot. France 52: Mém. 1. 
25 (1905). 
Polypodium Henryi C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 512 (1906). 
Selliguea cochlearis Christ (non Reinw.), Bull. Acad. Géogr. Bot. (1907) 142. 
Polypodium mon-changense C. Chr. Ind. Fil. Suppl. 60 (1906-12). 
Rhizome wide-creeping, subhypogaeous, densely scaly; scales fusco-brown, thin, 
ovate, acuminate, clearly reticulate; frond far apart, erect, wingless stipe 10-15 cm long, 
rufo-straminous, naked, lamina broadly lanceolate, 24-30 cm long, 5-7 cm broad at the 
middle, which is the broadest part, thence downward suddenly narrowed and then gra- 
dually attenuate in a narrow wing on each side of stipe, apex short-acuminate; texture 
herbaceous, brownish green, tinged wind-reddish and so is the midrib, naked on both 
sides, margin entire, but slightly repando-undulate; lateral main veins fine, but quite 
distinct, oblique, intervening veinlets also visible; sov7 linear, normally continuous, one 
between each pair of lateral veins, from midrib extending nearly to the margin, about 
5 mm apart. 
Hupeh: Nanto near Ichang, Henry 2114 (type); Ichang, Henry 7880, Kweichow: 
Kwei-yang, Bodinier 1572; Meitan, Y. Tsiang 8039, Lo-pie, Bodinier 1965. Szechuan: Mt. 
Omei, EF. Faber 1002; W. P. Fang 2586, Aug. 4, 1928, in thickets. Kwangsi: Tien Lian 
Shan, R. C. Ching 5357, 5322. Anwhei: Sui-nin Hsien, Lan-tien, K. K. Tsoong 1950 
A common, pretty fern in West China, particularly on the sacred Mount Omei. It 
is closely related to the Malayan C. macrophylla (Bl.), to which Rev. Faber’s plant was 
referred by Baker, but from which it differs, apart from geographical distinction, in 
frond being suddenly narrowed below the middle and in different color. 
Plate or. Fig. 1. habit sketch (natural size). 2. portion of a frond, showing venation and posi- 
tion of sori (x3). 3. scale from rhizome (X50). 
