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PLATE 143 
CONIOGRAMME INTERMEDIA Hieronymus 
POLYPODIACEA 
CONIOGRAMME INTERMEDIA Hiercnymus, Hedwigia 67: 301 (1916): C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 
Suppl. IT. 9 (1916); Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. 26: 307 (1931); Wu, Bull. Dept. 
Biol. Sun Yatsen Univ. No. 3: 212 t. 97 (1982). 
Coniogramme javanica Hk. Sp. Fil. 5: 145 (1863); Syn. Fil. 381 (1867), pro parte. 
Coniogramme fraxinea Diels in Engl. u. Prantl: Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1: 4. 262 (1899); C. Chr. Ind. 
Fil. 185 (1905), pro_ parte; Christ in Warburg, Monsunia 1: 58 (1900); Fedde, Repert. Sp. 
Nov. 5: 159 (1908); Bull. Acad. Géogr. Bot (1910) 5, 14; Komarov, Fl. Mansh. 1: 140 (1900); 
Fomin, Fl. Sib. et Orient. Extr. 5: 155 (1930); Ogata, Ic. Fil. Jap. 3: t. 111 (1930), non 
Diels, pro parte. ; 
Gymnogramme javanica Christ, Bull. Acad. Géogr. Bot. (z906) 130. 
Rhizome wide-creeping, densely scaly; scales brown, lanceolate, acuminate, 
subentire; frond far apart, stipe 20-40 cm long, glabrous, pale straminous, terete 
below, broadly grooved above, lamina ovate-deltoid, 40-60 cm long, 30-45 cm 
broad, bipinnate at base, simple pinnate upwards under the free end-pinna, or 
rarely simple pinnate ; lateral pinne 3-10-jugate, allernate, the basal ones much the 
largest, opposite and long-petiolate (petiole to 2 cm long), over 20 cm long, general- 
ly trifoliolate or rarely pinnate, the upper ones simple or rarely the second pinne 
trifoliolate or bilobed, petiolate or rarely the uppermost ones sessile or adnate, 30- 
15 cm long, 4-3 cm broad, broadly lanceolate, with caudate or attenuate apex, base 
rounded or rotundo-cuneate, margin sharply. serrate; texture herbaceous, color 
light green, both sides naked or sparcely villose, rachis naked, glossy, pale 
straminous; veins free, distinct, oblique, generally biforked from near the base, 
veinlets fine, Straight, parallel, extending till the base of teeth or well into the teeth 
and ended in an elongate clavate apex; sori pale brown, exindusiate, following 
veins and veinlets till a short distance from the margin, which remains sterile 
with the apex. 
Var. glabra Ching, var. nov. Pinnis subtus glabris. 
Yunnan: Mengtze, Hancock 135; Manmei, Henry 9257B; Maire 2773, 2808, 2768; Delavay 4942; 
Mekong, valley, Forrest 12940; San Tcha Ho, Delavay Oct. 13, 1887; Mao Kou Tchang, Ducloux 13, 
1169; Likiang, J. F. Rock 7757; Tchen-fong Shan, Delavay 3043 (1894). Kweichow: Pin-fa, Cavalerie 
324, Ganchow, Michel ro44,; Cheng-feng, Y. Tsiang 4603. Hupeh: Ichang, Nanto, Henry 2204; Koi 
Hsien, Silvestri 34, 33, 2839 (1909); Shin Shan Hsien, S. S. Chien 8103 in herb. Univ. Nanking. Szechwan: 
Mt. Omei, Wilson 5245; Brown 11, 31; W. P. Fang 2707, 2575, 2576, 2605, 2548; Nanchuan, W. P. Fang 
5738. Hunan: Yun-Shan, Handel-Mazzetti 12250. Kwangtung: Lohfau Shan, Levine & McClure 6831; 
Levine 1485; Lokchong, W. T. Tsang 20955. Shensi: Tui-kio-san, Giraldi, Sept. 1893; Si-ku-tziu-san, 
Giraldi, July, 1894; Wei-tze-ping, Licent 2545 (1916). Kwangsi: Yao Shan, S. S. Sin 468 (1928); Tsin- 
lung Shan, Lin-yin Hsien, R. C. Ching 6882; Lu-chen, R. C. Ching 5745. Manchuria: Kirin, Komarov 
40 (1896); James (1886). 
Corea: Taquet 2474, 2475. Also Japan, Tonkin and East India. 
Var. villosa Ching, var. nov. Pinnis subtus plus minus pilis tenuisissimis, adpressis, articulatis 
onustis. 
Yunnan: Mengtze, Hancock 22; Salwin valley, Capt. Kingdon Ward, Jan. 2, 1914; Maire 2786; 
Tian-chong Shan, Tali, K. K. Tsoong 2589. Szechwan: Henry 7107; Mt. Omei, W. P. Fang 2697, 2064; 
Mar-pien Hsien, W. P. Fang 6331; T. F. Low 342; Kuan Hsien, W. P. Fang 2064. Kwangtung: Lohfau 
Shan, £. Faber, Sept. 22, 1886, herb. Hance; Lokchong, C. L. Tso 21067; W. T. Tsang 20892. Kwei- 
chow: Pin-fa, Kweiting, Y. Tsiang 5350. 
Also Japan and India. 
Our plate represents the var. glabra from Mt. Omei (leg. W. P. Fang No. 2548). Hieronymus 
is right in separating the Chinese and Japanese plants as distinct from true C. fraxinea (Don) from the 
Himalayas and Malesia-Polynesia, which is characterized by entire pinnae of still larger size and much 
thicker texture, but I can not agree with him in regarding Rosthorn’s plant No. 1699 from Nanchuan 
and Henry’s No. 2204 from Ichang (C. Rosthornii) as specifically distinct from var. villosa of the present 
species by merely having “‘shorter, stiff and easily broken hairs, consisting of 2-4 cells’’ on the underside 
of pinnae, a character which seems to be too insignificent to justify a specific rank. 
Plate 143. Fig. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. Portion of pinna, showing serration and ex- 
tension of veinlets (x 12). 3. Scale from rhizome (x 12). 
