ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 101 
WOODSIA MACROCHLAINA Mettenius 
POLYPODIACE 
WOODSIA MACROCHLENA Mettenius ex Kuhn, Journ. Bot. (1868) 270; Linnea 86: 126 
(1869); C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 657 (1905); Suppl. III. 195 (1934); Fomin, FI. Sib. et 
Orient. Extr. 5: 10 c. fig. (1930); Ching, Sinensia 3: 148. 1932. 
Woodsia insularis Hk. et Bak. (non Hance, 1861) Syn. Fil. 47 (1867). 
Woodsia Brandtii Franch. et Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. 2: 205, 616 (1870). 
Woodsia japonica Makino, Bot. Mag. Tokio 18: 134 (1904); Ogata, Ic. Fil. Jap. 3: t. 149 (1930). 
Woodsia sinuata. Makino, Bot. Mag. Tokio 11: 64 (1897, non 1904); Christ, Bull. Acad. Géogr. 
Bot. 20: 157 (1909, non 1902). 
Woodsia frondosa Christ in Fedde, Repert.Sp. Nov. 5: 12 (1908). 
Rhizome short, erect, densely radicose, apex densely clothed in bright brown, 
lanceolate, acuminate, sparcely fimbriate scales; fronds fasciculated, stipe 2-10 cm 
long, straminous or brownish, scaly at base, hirsute upwards, lamina 5-12 cm long, 
2-4 cm broad, pinnate under pinnatifid acutish apex, pinnx 5-12-jugate, the lower 
ones free, subsessile, the upper ones adnate, the basal pair springs from the pro- 
minent articulation of stipe, always somewhat smaller than those above, deflexed, 
ovate-deltoid, with more or less auriculated anterior base, the middle pinne 1.2-2 
em long, oblong-ovate, adnate with wingless rachis between contiguous pairs, 
lobato-sinuate or pinnatifid into oblong sinuate segments, rachis and both sides 
moderately clothed in ferruginous needle-like, articulated appressed hairs, no trace 
of scales; texture herbaceous, soft; veins in segments pinnate; sorz large, terminal 
on veinlets, 1-2 to each lobe, or 4-6 to each segment, indusium cup-shaped, large, 
membranaceous, setose hairy, irregularly 4-6 erosed at top; sporangia shortly 
stipitate. 
- Shantung: Chefoo, Schottmuller (type), August, 1861; B. Drug 285, Sept. 17, 
1907: A. C. Maingay 13, August-Sept. 1862; Cowdry 644 (1920); Forbes 2233 (1881); 
Wei-hai-wei, C. G. Matthew, Sept. 1906. Shansi: HE. Licent (without locality). Man- 
churia: Swinhe 6516 in herb. Hance. Port Arthur: Mzss Moller, Oct. 28, 1928. 
Corea: Ouen San, U. Faurie 101 (type of W. frondosa). Quelpert: U. Faurie 
5610, 2172 (f. typica). 
Japan: Prov. Chochiou, Kramer 1569 (type of W. Brandtii); C. G. Matthew, 
July 23, 1906. 
For further comment and discussion about this distinct but hitherto much 
neglected fern, readers are referred to my paper on the genus Woodsia in Sinensia 
3: pp. 143. 
Plate ror. Fig. 1. Habit sketch, f. typica (natural size). 2. Upper middle pinna, showing vena- 
tion and sori (x 6). 3. Sorus with indusium (x 20). 4. the same, cut vertically (x 20). 5. Scales and 
hair from the base of stipe (x 16). 6-7. Hairs from rachis and leaf surfaces (x 30). 8. Basal pinnae at- 
tached to the articulation of stipe (x 20). 9. Sporangium (greatly enlarged). 10. Spores (greatly enlarg- 
ed). 
