350° BOTANICAL GAZETTE [May 
PoLYPODIUM ANNUIFRONS Makino.—Ta-tsien-lu; rocks in 
wood, 6000-8000 ft.; June 1908; no. 2637.—J. 
Porypopium ENcLert Luerss.—Mupin; cliffs, 4000-7000 ft.; 
- August 1908; no. 2639.—J. 
POLYPODIUM SHENSIENSE Christ.—Mupin; cliffs, 4000-6000 
ft.; August 1908; no. 2644. : 
Potypopium LEHMANNI Metten.—Mupin; woodland, 4000- 
6ooo ft.; August 1908; no. 2643.—H. 
Potypopium GRIFFITHIANUM Hook.—Mupin; 4000-6000 it; 
August 1908; no. 2645.—H. 
PoLYPODIUM LINEARE Thunbg.—Ta-tsien-lu; on trees, 40007 
8000 ft.; June 1908; no. 2633; on rocks, no. 2634.—H.]J. 
Lycopopium Luciputum Michaux.—Northeast of Ta-tsien-lu; 
rocks, 8000-10,000 ft.; June 1908; no. 2651.—H.A. 
Diagnoses of the new species 
Sorolepidium H. Christ, genus novum.—Habitu Ceterach, 
characteribus potius Polystichum referens, differt soris magnis— 
medialibus in nervulo basali anteriore nervorum lateralium termr 
nalibus, subrotundis, indusio proprio deficiente, indusio i ae 
squamis singulis vel duabus aut tribus subulatis et fimbriatis € 
basi receptaculi oriundis constituto. 
This beautiful plant, which much resembles a xerophilous alpine Tibetan 
species, deserves as well as Plecosorus to be separated from Polystichum by the 
characters indicated above. The indusial scales are found at the — of 
the receptacle and are inserted on the vein, arising at the base of the pedicels 
of the sporangia. There is always one larger scale, and sometimes one oF tW® 
smaller ones; and also always a very large one inserted on the costa of wes 
pinna and covering the sorus. FRANCHET has placed this plant with Gymno- 
gramme in the Paris Herbarium, without naming it, probably because © ee 
confluent sori without indusia; but the sorus does not follow the soriferous 
vein longitudinally as in Gymnogramme, it is attached to a terminal receptacle. 
Sorolepidium glaciale (Polystichum Christ Foug. de la Chine = 
Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, Bull. Soc. Bot. France IV. 5:28), fig. I 
Has.—Seems widely distributed in the high ranges of western China. ; 
Discovered by Abbé DeLavay in Yunnan on rocky declivities at the ae 
of the Lu Kiang glacier, July 9, 1884, n. 45. Herb. Paris. Rediscovered a 
WILSON in the western part of Szech’uan, 1903-1904, NO. 537 (Herb. Lie 
Veitch & Sons), Bull. Acad. Geog. Bot. Mans 110, 1906; by the same collector | 
