ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 128 
CYCLOPELTIS CRENATA (Fée) C. Christensen 
POLY PODIACEZ 
CYCLOPELTIS CRENATA (Fée) C. Christensen, Ind. Fil. Suppl. IIT. 64 (1934). 
Hemicardion crenatum Fée, Gen. Fil. 283 t. 22A f. 1 (1850-52). 
Hemicardion cochin-chinense Fée, 1. c. (nom. nud.) 
Cyclopeltis Presliana-C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 197 (1905), pro parte; Bonap. Notes Pterid. Pt. 7: 99, 
153 (1918); Merr. Enum. Hainan Pl. in Lingnan Sci. Journ. 5: 9 (1927), non Berkeley, 
1857. 
Rhizome, short, thick, oblique, scaly; scales darkish brown, linear-subulate, 
1.5-2 cm long, 1 mm broad, soft, with scarious margin; fronds ceespitose, stipe 30-40 
cm long, 5 mm thick above base, angular, straminous or brownish, fibrillose-scaly 
throughout the rachis, impari-pinnate; lateral pinnx 10-15-jugate, alternate, obli- 
que, shortly petiolate, articulated to rachis, lower ones hardly shortened, about 5 
cm apart from each other, the upper ones closer, 8-13 cm long, to 3 em broad, lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, base unequal, i.e. the upperside oblique, the lower side eor- 
date, with a rounded hamato-recurvate auricle against the rachis, margin sinuate, 
entire towards apex; terture chartaceous, green, costa fibrillose-scaly underneath ; 
tens 4-forked, flexuose; sori large, rounded, dorsal on veinlets, 3-seriate on each 
side of costa, indusium large, coriaceous, dark brown, peltate, persistent; spores bi- 
lateral, broadly winged all around. 
Hainan: Nodoa, Sha Po Ling, F. A. McClure 8164, 8168, 8196, moist shaded 
ravines of water edge; Katsumatta, in herb. Hongkong; Ling Shui Hsien, F. A. 
McClure 20068, May 4-20, 1932; Yai-chow, F. C. How 71124; C. Wang 33487, 34195; 
Eryl Smith 1620, 1633. 
Cochin-China: Annam, Tourane, Gaudichaud (type); ibid., J. & S. M. Clemens 
4168. : 
This decidedly distinct species, endemic in Cochin-China and the Island 
Hainan, has hitherto been considered as identical with C. Presliana (J. Sm.) Berke- 
ley, now should be known as ©. Cumingiana (Fée) Ching, comb. nov., as the species 
was actually first properly described by Fée under his genus Hemicardion in Gen. 
Fil. 283 t. 22A. f. 2, from the Philippine Islands and Malesia, which differs in more 
numerous lateral, narrower falcate and close pinne, of which the lower ones are 
gradually shortened towards the very short stipe, with deeply cordate-auricled base 
at both sides and in much thicker leaves, turning blackish when dried. 
Plate 128. Fig. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. Portion of pinna, showing venation and posi-’ 
tion of sori (x 3). 3.- Scale from the base of stipe (x 10). 4. Basal part of pinne, showing articula- 
tion to rachis (x 10). 5. Spores (enlarged). 
