ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 111 
ASPLENIUM SARELII Hooker 
POLYPODIACEZA 
ASPLENIUM SARELIT Hooker in Blakiston, Five Months on the Yangtze 363 (1862); 
C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 130 (1905). 
Asplenium Saulii Baker in Hk, Syn. Fil. ed. 2. 216 (1874); Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde 203 (1897); 
Diels in Engl. u. Prantl: Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1: 4. 240 (1899); Ogata, Ic. Fil. Jap. 1: t. 8 
(1928). 
Asplenium Blakistoni Baker in Hk. Syn. Fil. 216 (1867); Hk. Ic. Pl. t. I0I5, 1016 (1867). 
Asplenium pekinense Makino (non Hance, 1867), Bot. Mag. Tokio 9: 245 (1895). 
Rhizome short, erect, densely scaly at the apex; scales lanceolate-subulate, 
black; fronds caespitose, stipe 5-10 em long, slender, naked or sparcely scaly, 
green, lamina deltoidly ovate-oblong, 5-13 cm long, 2.5-5 cm broad or broader at 
base, acuminate, tripinnate, the basal pinnae much the largest, ovate, with un- 
equal base, 1.5-3 cm long, 1-2 em broad, ultimate pinnules linear, 2-3-fid, with a 
fine tooth, with 1-2 elongate sori, induiam thin, gray, entire; texture herbaceous, 
glabrous on both sides, color green even upon drying. 
Szechwan: Blakiston (type), without exact locality; Mt. Omei, E. Faber 1007; 
ibid., #. H. Wilson 5358, 5262 (ad f. typica). Hupeh: Patung, A Henry 3789; T- 
chang, Nanto, Henry 219; Ou-pan Shan, Silvestri 3249, 3248 (1905); Nang Hsien, 
Silvestri 4029, 4030, 4032, 4033. Kiangsu: Nanking, She Er Tung, R. C. Ching 
8499 (1927); DeVol 63, August 13, 1983; L. F. Zee 11 in herb. Univ. Nanking; I- 
shing, Y. L. Keng 2690. Kiangsi: Fengcheng, Y. Tsiang 10285. Kweichow: San- 
hoa, Y. Tsiang 6243; Pachai, Y. Tsiang 6158; Tsunyi, Y. Tsiang 5298. 
Also Japan. 
This distinct fern, common throughout the Yangtze valley, is closely related 
to A. variwm Wall. from Northern India and West China, which differs in much 
narrower and bipinnate frond of a different outline with broadly oblong ultimate 
pinnules without so sharp teeth as in our fern. In the general shape of front, it 
appears very much like a small form of A. ¢enuifolium Don, differs in much thicker 
texture of front and entirely different shape of ultimate pinnules. A. pekinense 
Hance, common in North and Central China, seems to be specially distinct from 
our fern by its much reduced lower pinne. 
Plate 111. Fig. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. The same, forma typica. 3. Pinnule of first 
order (x 6). 4. Scales from rhizome (x 27). 
