ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 114 
ASPLENIUM CRINICAULE Hance 
POLYPODIACE 
ASPLENIUM CRINICAULE Hance, Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 5: 254 (1866); Hk. et Bak. Syn. 
Fil. 208 (1867); Clarke, Tran. Linn. Soc. II. Bot. 1: 479 (1880); Bedd. Handb. 
Ferns, Brit. Ind. 150 (1883); Christ; Bull. Herb. Boiss. 6: 959 (1898); Diels in 
Engl. u. Prantl: Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1: 4. 239 (1899); C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 106 
(1905); Wu, Bull. Dept. Biol. Sun Yatsen Univ. No. 3: 190 t. 87 (1932). 
Asplenium Hancei Baker in Hk. Syn. Fil. ed. 1. 208 (1867); Kuhn, Bot. Zeit. (1869) 130. 
Asplenium Beddomei Mett. ex Kuhn, Linnea 36: 93 (1869). 
Asplenium falcatum Bedd. (non Lam., nec Thbg.) Ferns S. Ind. t. 141 (1864). 
Asplenium polytrichum Christ, Bull. Acad. Géogr. Bot. (1909), Mém. XX. 172. 
Asplenium adiantoides Wu, Bull. Dept. Biol. Sun Yatsen Univ. No. 3: t. 88-90 (1932). 
Rhizome short, erect, densely scaly ; fronds ceespitose, stipe 7-10 cm long, dark- 
brown, densely scaly throughout the rachis; scales dark rufo-brown, iridescent, 
clathrate, subulate from broad and often branched base, caduous, lamina lanceo- 
late, caudate-acuminate, 10-30 em long, 4-7 cm broad, simple pinnate; pinne 
lanceolate, acuminate, 2-4 cm long, the lower ones gradually abbreviated, ovate- 
thomboid with obtuse apex, base unequal, obliquely truncate above, cuneate below, 
Margin irregularly erose-dentate; texture herbaceous, color opaque; veins flabellately 
forked, channelled; sort linear, oblique to costa, indusium firm, entire, lower ones 
often open towards each other. 
Kwangtung: Ting-wu Shan, Sampson 11203 (type) in herb. Hance, June 15, 
1866; Whampoa, Hance; Ford 228 in herb. Hongkong; Lokchong, C. L. Tso 21332; 
Swatow, Thai-yong, Dalziel, July, 1899. Hongkong: Dr. Harland 91; Hance 7418 
(1857); Tai-mo Shan, Matthew, Oct. 15, 1907. Fukien: Yengping, H. H. Chung 
2992; Amoy, De Grijs 1198 in herb. Hance; 7. S. Dunn 777, May 15, 1905. Kwang- 
si: Yao Shan, S. S. Sin 331 (1928); Seh-feng Dar Shan, R. C. Ching 8436; Lu-chen, 
R. C. Ching 5551. Yunnan: Mengtze, Hancock 182; Szemeo, Henry 11939, 11939B, 
11939C. WKweichow: Pin-fa, Cavalerie 2844 (type of 4. polytrichum); Tsin-gay, J. 
Laborde, Jan. 14, 1898; Tu-shan, Y. Tsiang 6954. 
Also Northern India and Neilgheries. 
A very variable fern as to the size and shape of pinne, as has been well 
illustrated by Wu by half dozen plates under different names. In type, the pinne 
are 4-5.cm long. A. Hancei Baker from Kwangtung represents a small form, 15 
cm long with lamina 2-3 cm broad, pinne ovate-obiong with crenate margin. 
Habit exactly similar to A. planicaule Wall., which differs in glabrous stipe and 
rachis. I have strongly suspected (Cf. Blot, Asplen, d. Tonkin p. 36) that the 
present species from mainland may after all prove to be a geographic form of A. 
pellucidum Lam. of Malesia-Polynesia and also frequent in Annam, which differs 
from our fern only in elongate lanceolate, acuminate pinne, of which the lower 
ones are even more strongly reduced into an ovate outline. 
Plate 114. Fig. 1. Habit sketch (natural size), 2. Pinna, showing venation and position of sori 
(x 2). 3. Scale from rhizome (x 16). 4. Scales from stipe and rachis {xzo0). 5. A small form with 
short obtuse pinne (natural size). 
