ICONES FILICUM SINICARUM 
PLATE 229 
LEPTOGRAMMA SCALLANI (Christ) Ching 
THELYPTERIDACE 
LEPTOGRAMMA SCALLANI (Christ) Ching in Sinensia 7: 101 t. 7. 1936; Tard. et C. Chr. in 
Fl. Gen. Ind. 7: 372. fig. 44 (1). 1941. 
Aspidium Scallani Christ in Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1901: 296. 
Dryopteris Scallani C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 291. 1905; in Acta Hort. Gotheb. 1: 55. 1924. 
Rhizome short, erect or oblique, densely radicose; fronds caespitose, stipe 6-12 cm long, dark stra- 
mineous, basal part moderately scaly and densely setose hairy, scales brown, lanceolate, setose, hairs gray, 
needle-like, long and unicellular; lamina usually 12-20 cm long or longer, 7-10 cm broad, subdeltoid- 
oblong, acuminate, base not or sometimes slightly narrowed, simply pinnate under the pinnatifid apical 
part; pinnae about 10 pairs, oblique, rather close, the lower several pairs free and distinctly petiolate, the 
upper ones becoming more and more adnate upwards, the basal pair as long as the upper next ones and 
almost horizontally patent, or sometimes considerably shortened, the middle ones 4-5 cm long, generally 
6-8 mm, or rarely broader, lanceolate, acute or subacuminate, base equal, truncate or rounded, pinnatisect 
about half way or less down into about 10 pairs of deltoid-ovate, oblique entire lobes; texture thickly her- 
baceous, dry brownish or blackish-green, rachis, costa and costules below copiously clothed in long spread- 
ing gray needle-like hairs, quite glabrous above except the tomentose costa; veins in lobes 4 pairs, oblique 
and curved, the anterior basal one runs to the sinus, the posterior basal one to the margin some way above 
the sinus, setose hairy underneath; sori oblong, straight, 1-2 pairs in each lobe along the lower veins, 
sporangia provided with 4 erect needle-like hairs. 
A very distinct endemic species inhabiting deep ravines by stream side under forests in the Provinces 
of Szechuan (Mt. Omei), Kweichow, Yunnan, Kwangsi, Hunan, Kiangsi (Lu-shan), Chekiang, and 
southern part of Anwhei, at elevations of 400-550 m. Also Tonkin, Indo-China. 
Plate 229. 1. Habit sketch (natural size). 2. Portion of pinna, showing venation and sori (X 4). 3. Scale 
from the base of stipe (X 30). 4. Hairs from the lower part of stipe (X 60). 5-6. Sporangium with spores 
(x 100). : 
