226 ON TWO KECENT COLLECTIONS OF FERNS FROM WESTERN CHINA. 



texture 



taneous, glabrous, flexuose. Pinnae deltoid, spreading horizontally, 



distant, 1-1^ in. long; 



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broad. Sori placed all round the free part of the edge of the 

 nearly continuous segments. Indusia narrow, glabrous. — Ichang, 

 Henry 3998. Allied to the Himalayan C. subvillosa Hook, and C. 

 DalhoudiB Hook. There are two allied undescribed species from 



Yunnan in the Delavay collection. 



Pellcea geraniafolia Fee. Wushang Gorge, Yang-tze-kiang, 

 Faber 1011. 



Onychiam japonicum Kunze. Mount Omei and Min River, 



Faber 1024. 



Cryptogramme crispa R. Br. Summit of Mount Omei, Faber 

 1080. Widely spread in the Himalayas, but new to China. 



Pteris cretica L. Type ; Mount Omei, Faber 1014, 1016. 

 Var. P. melanocaulon Fee. Yang-tze-kiang, Faber 1013, 1017. — 

 P. dactylhm Hook. Mount Omei, 3500 ft., Faber 1012. A rare 

 East Himalayan species, new to China. 



(4*). P. deltodon, n. sp. Stipes tufted, slender, naked, stra- 

 mineous, £-1 ft. long. Lamina ovate, simply pinnate, membranous, 

 4-8 in. long, green and glabrous on both surfaces. Pinnae 3-5, 

 lanceolate, sessile, 2-6 in. long, |-1 in. broad at the middle, con- 

 spicuously inciso-dentate at the sterile tips. Veins lax, simple or 

 forked, ascending, distinct. Sori continuous from the base to within 

 a short distance of the tip of the pinnae. Indusium narrow, glabrous. 

 —Mount Omei, 3500 ft., Faber 1010. Nearest P. cretica, but pinna) 

 few, the lowest simple, the barren part differently toothed, and the 

 veining much laxer. 



P. serrulata L. fil. Mount Omei, Faber 1015. — P. excelsa 

 Gaudich. Mount Omei, Faber 1018. Agrees well with the Hima- 

 layan plant so called, but perhaps not distinct specifically from P. 



quadHaurita. 



W? (8*). Lomaria deflexa, n. sp. Caudex erect. Stipes densely 



tufted, naked, that of the sterile frond 7-8 in. long. Sterile frond 

 oblong-lanceolate, 15-18 in. long, 6-7 in. broad at the middle, 

 narrowed gradually to the base, membranous, green and glabrous 

 on both surfaces, cut down to the rachis into very numerous adnate 

 lanceolate pinnae, the largest 3-3£ in. long, | m. broad, tapering 

 gradually to a distinctly-serrated apex, the lower ones much deflexed. 

 Veins lax, distinct, ascending, usually once forked. Pinnce of the 

 fertile frond remote, linear, the central ones 2-2i in. long.— Mount 

 Omei, 7000 ft., Faber 1028. Nearest to the Norfolk Island U 

 acuminata Baker = L. norfolkiana Kunze. 



L. Sinccmt Desv. Ichang. Henry 3316. Mount Omei, 2500 ft., 



Faber 1028. 



Woodwardia radiram Sin. Mount Omei, Faber 1081. 



Asp/enium Trichomona L. Patung district, Henry 3075. ^oturt 

 Omei, Faber 1087. — An normale Don. Mount Omei, Faber 1U7#- 

 An extreme form, resembling the Neilgherry A. opacum Kuaze.-- 

 A. cHnicauU Hance. Mount Omei, 2500 ft., Faber 1006. — . £ 

 resectum Smith. Mount Omei, Faber 1005, ex parte. An earlier 



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