230 ON TWO RECENT COLLECTIONS OF FERNS FROM WESTERN CHINA. 



P. ammmm Wall. Mount Omei, Faber 1043, 1094. — P. erythro- 

 carpnm Mett. Mount Omei, 9000 ft. to summit, Faber 1037. A 

 Sikkim species, and gathered lately by Dr. Watt in Manipur. New 

 to China. — P. calmtum Baker. Mount Omei, 3500 ft., Faber 1049. 



l\ Lingua Sw. Mount Omei, at 6000 ft., on trees, Faber 1076. 

 Patung district, Henry 3684. — P.jissum Baker. Mount Omei, at 

 3000 ft., on trees, Faber 1075. — P. rostratam Hook. Patung dis- 

 trict, Henry 3685. — P. dnjmo;ilossoides Baker. Mount Omei, Faber 

 1046. — P. linear* Thunb. Mount Omei, ascending to the summit, 

 Faber 1069, 1070. Patung district, Henry 3683. 



\>7 (304"). Poly podium (Phymatodes) aster olepis, n. sp. Eoot- 



stock as thick as a swan's quill, creeping beneath the surface of the 

 soil. Stipe naked, erect, 3-4 in. long. Lamina simple, lanceolate, 

 12-15 in. long, li-lf in. broad at the middle, tapering gradually 

 to the base and apex, moderately firm in texture, green and glabrous 

 on both surfaces, with a few scattered brown membranous peltate 

 scales beneath, and numerous transparent dots. Veins anastomosing 

 copiously. Sori large, round, superficial, forming a single row near 

 the margin in the upper half of the frond.— Mount Omei, 4500 ft., 

 on rocks, Faber 1063. Differs from all forms of P. simplex by its 

 submarginal sori. Another plant included under the same number 

 has nearly medial sori, and may be a form of simplex. 



P. ensatum Thunb. Mount Omei, 3500 ft., Faber 1095. The 

 Chinese specimens lately received from various sources quite run 

 together the Himalayan P. ovatum Wall, and Japanese P. ensatum 

 Thunb.— P. superjiciale Blume. Mount Omei, Faber 1065. 

 tf^ (349*). P. (PHYMATODEs)deltoideum,n.sp. Kootstock creeping 

 widely below the surface. Stipe naked, erect, 9-12 in. long, winged 

 towards the top. Lamina simple, deltoid, 8-9 in. long and broad, 

 moderately firm in texture, green and glabrous on both surfaces, 

 pinnatifid in the lower half, the two basal lobes much the largest, 

 ovate-acuminate, 2-3 in. long. Main veins produced from the 

 midrib to the edge ±-± in. apart ; intervening veinlets anastomosing 

 copiously. Sori large, globose, superficial, mainly in regular lax 

 rows on each side of the main veins. Ichang, Henry 3279. Near 



P. hemitomum Hance. 



P. hastatwn Thunb. Mount Omei and Min Biver, Faber 1066. 

 P. di/atatum Wall. Mount Omei, 4000 ft., Faber 1073. A 

 Himalayan species, gathered previously in Lo-fan-shan by Ford, 

 P. Hmalaijense Hook. Mount Omei, Faber 1041. The fuller recent 

 material runs P. Zehmanni Mett. into this species. — P. Fortunei 

 Kunze. Mount Omei, Faber 1072. Patung district, Henry 3704. 

 b P. propinqmm Wall. Mount Omei, Faber 1071. A common 

 Himalayan species, now found in China for the first time. 



Gymnogramme involxUa Hook. Mount Omei, 4000 ft., Faber 

 1019. A common East Himalayan species, now found in China 

 for the first time. — G. macrophylla Hook. Mount Omei, 3000 ft. 

 and higher, Faber 1002. New to China, if G. Henryi Baker does 

 not, as I suspect it will be found to, run into it. Not Himalayan. 

 — G. eUipHca Baker. Mount Omei, 3500 ft., Faber 1004. Ichang, 

 Henry 3348. 



