﻿HYMENOPHYLLUM DENTICULATUM IN 

 CENTRAL CHINA. 



By Otto E. Jennings. 



There was recently sent to me for identification a 

 very pretty little fern which had been collected in 

 August of this year by Mr. William Millward of the 

 Nanking Methodist Mission while he was visting a 

 summer resort, Kuling, in the mountains near Kiuki- 

 ang, China. 



The specimen turns out to be a rather under-sized 

 but otherwise very typical plant of Hymenopliyllum 



denticulatum as described by Swartz in 1800 from 

 specimens collected in Moulmein, Burma. Later, as 

 reported by C. B. Clarke in the Transactions of the 

 Linnaean Society for 1880, the fern had been found 

 quite plentiful around Cherra Station in northern In- 

 dia, at Bhutan in the eastern Himalayas, and frequent 

 at Khasia in Assam at an altitude of 4000 to 5000 

 feet. Christensen in 1906 gives the distribution of this 



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