270 FILICES NONNULL/E CHINE INDIGENA. 
vaceo-viridia, glaberrima, subdifformia, pinnatisecta cum impari; petio- 
us 4—?"]ongus, cum rhachi stramineus, levis; rhachis 4-13’ longa, 
ovata s. ovato-oblonga; segmenta 6-12-juga, petiolata, patentia ; ste- 
riia ad 8" longa, ultra 1" lata, fertilia 4—6" longa, 4—6" lata, e basi 
rotundata s. cuneata, linearia s. elongata, longius breviusve acuminata, 
integerrima ; superiora decrescentia, sessilia, terminalia supremis late- 
ralibus conformia, costee supra planiuscule ; nervi patentissimi, furcati, 
circiter 3" distantes ; margo revolutus, latiusculus, integerrimus; para- 
physes numerosee.—Hongkong (Hance, n. 19) 
P. teniosa, T. Sm., proxima, sed petiolo levi, segmentis elongatis 
satis recedens. 
In herbario Francavilleo ante paucos dies speciem generis Polypodii 
adhue indescriptam a cl. Mettenio Polypodium Chinense nominatam 
vidimus, eujus diagnosis nunc sequitur. 
Polypodium Chinense, Mett.; rhizoma repens, elongatum, crassitiem 
penne corvinee subadequans, paleis membranaceis amplis, pallide ru- 
fescentibus, late ovato-oblongis, lanceolatis, margine pallidiore eroso- 
denticulatis squamosum ; folia distantia, membranacea, pallide vire- 
scentia, pellucida, glabra, brevi petiolata, petiolo 9" longo, 5-11” longa, 
10-12" lata, lanceolata, utrinque æqualiter attenuata et acuminata, in- 
tegerrima; costule tenerrime, subconspicuze, subdivaricato-flexuose ; 
macule Drynari@ translucentes appendicibus numerosis divaricato- 
ramosis apice manifeste incrassatis, 4—5-seriatze, paracostales hine et 
sequentes monosore, marginales et intramarginales minores; sori in 
basi radii e maculis costalibus emissis utrinque ad costam uniseriati 
eique approximati, superficiales, rotundati ; paraphyses nullz.— China, 
Canton (Gaudichaud !) ; Fokien (De Grijs in Hb. Hance, 6786 !) ; 
Pootoo (Fortune, 1811); Tshu-San (Herb. Godet !). 
A Polypodio normali, Don, quocum cl. Hooker in Spec. Fil. v. p. 69, 
var. B. (t. spec. ex Mett. ms.) hane speciem conjungit, conditione pa- 
learum rhizomatis, nervatura, sororum dispositione, defectu paraphy- 
sium recedit. 
Postremo Woodsie (Sect. Euwoodsie) speciem commemoro, quz a 
Schottmiller a. 1861 prope Tsheu-Fu (Cheefoo) collecta a beato 
Mettenio Woodsia macrochlena nominata est. Differt enim ab omni- 
bus reliquis -speciebus indusio membranaceo quadrifido, lobis margine 
longissime ciliatis, persistente ; segmentis infra solutis, supra adnatis. 
Totam hujus speciei diagnosin alio loco dabimus. 
Berolini m. Jul, 1868. 
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