ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 146 
SAXIGLOSSUM TAENIODES (C. Chr.) Ching 
POLYPODIACEZ 
SAXIGLOSSUM TAENIODES (C. Chr.) Ching, Contr. Inst. Bot. Nat. Acad. Peiping 2: 
2 t. 2 (1933); C. Chr. Ind. Fil. Suppl. III. 170 (1934). 
Cyclophorus taeniodes C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 201 (1905); Acta Hort. Gothob. 1: 106 (1924). 
Polypodium angustissimum Baker (non Fée, 1867), Ann. Bot. 5: 472 (1891); Christ, Nuov. Giorn. 
Bot. Soc. Ital. n. s. 4: 97 t. 3. f. 1. (1897). 
Niphobolus angustissimus Diels in Engl. u. Prantl: Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1: 4. 326 (1899); Engl. 
Jahrb. 29: 207 (1900); Giesen. Farngatt. Niph. 183 (igor); Christ, Bull. Acad. Géogr. 
Bot. (1902) 220 c. fig. 
Niphobolus Cavalerianus Christ, Bull. Acad. Géogr. Bot. (1904) 107. 
Cyclophorus Cavalerianus C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 198 (1905). 
Cyclophorus Sasakii Hayata, Ic. Pl. Form. 6: 158 (1916); Ogata, Ic. Fil. Jap. 4: t. 158 (1931). 
Rhizome wiry, wide-creeping, densely scaly; scales at growing tips ovate-lan- 
ceolate, bright rufo-brown, with spread hair-pointed tip, on old parts, dark-brown, 
acuminate, peltately affixed; frond far apart, uniseriate 3-9 cm long, 1.5-3.5 mm 
broad, narrowly linear, sessile or shortly petiolate, articulated to rather a high 
pseudopodium, rigidly coriaceous, margin strongly revolved, upperside with a few 
stellate hairs at first, becoming naked at last, midrib deeply grooved, prominent 
underneath, underside densely clothed in brown wooly stellate hairs with fine, 
needle-like arms along the midrib; venation completely hidden, reticulated with 
2-rows of elongated, exappendiculate areole, veinlets free towards margin and end- 
ed in ovate hydathodes; sori linear, straight, one-rowed between margin and 
midrib, completely covered by the inwardly produced flap-like leaf-margin when 
young, which is more or less pushed open by the growing sori later; spores ovoid, 
smooth, transparent. 
By the present distribution, this peculiarly distinct fern is known from 
Hupeh, Shensi, Kweichow, Chekiang, Kwangtung, Kwangsi and Szechwan, be- 
sides the Island Formosa. A complete enumeration of specimens was already 
given in my previous paper on the genus, to which readers are referred for. more 
detailed information. 
Plate 146. Fig. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. Portion of front, showing venation and position of 
sori (after Giesenhagen). 3. Cross section of a soriferous frond, showing the indusium-like marginal lip and 
soral chamber (in moist state). 4. The same, in dry state. 5. Scale from rhizome. 6. Cross section of 
rhizome. 7. Cross section of the base of stipe. 8. Spores. g. Stellate hair from the underside of frond. 
to. The same from the upperside of frond (2-10 greatly enlarged). 
