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there of the grass, resulting in severer fires. Even on the Chimanimani 
range, where the grass is extremely short, the trees have suffered greatly. 
“The tree grows not uncommonly between 5500-7000 and probably 
8000 ft. on the higher hills about Melsetter and along the Portuguese 
border between that place and the Umvumvumvu river, as well as on the 
Chimanimani range and on the higher spurs of the mountains between 
Mount Pene and the Yanganda headwaters—almost entirely in the glens, 
along the streams, on the edges of patches of forest, on sheer scarps or 
anywhere, in fact, where there is some slight protection from 
amongst rocks 
the full force of the grass-fires."' 
CRYPTOGAMS. 
By A. Gerr, M.A., F.L.5. 
PTERIDOPHYTA. 
GLEICHENIA POLYPODIOIDEs, Sm. in Мет. Ас. Turin, v. 419 (1793). 
Chimanimani Mts., 6500 ft. ; n. 676. 
Distrib. South Africa, Amsterdam Island. 
GLEICHENIA UMBRACULIFERA, T. Moore, Ind. Filicum, 384 (1862). 
Melsetter, 6000 ft., n. 618; Lusitu Hills, 5000 ft., n. 1497. 
Distrib. South Africa. 
СүлтнкА DREGEI, Kunze in Linnea, x. (1836) 551. 
Mt. Pene Forest, 6500-7000 ft. ; n. 816. 
Distrib. South and East África. 
CyaTHEA Тномзомт, Baker in Journ. Bot. xix. (1881) 180. 
Near Chirinda, 3800 ft. ; n. 817, n. * Z," n. 401 in part. 
Distrib. Nyasaland. 
CyATHEA MANNIANA, Hook. Syn. Filicum, 21 (1865). 
Maruma, 3700 ft., n. 801; Mt. Pene, 7000 ft., n. 6030. 
Distrib. West and East tropical Africa. 
HxMENOPHYLLUM GRACILE, Bory т Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 521 (1810). 
Mt. Pene, 7000 ft.; n. 6016. 
Distrib. Natal, Madagascar, Mascarene Islands. 
DAVALLIA THECIFERA, H. В. К. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1. 23 (1815). 
Mt. Pene, S.E. Rhodesia, 7000 ft. ; n. 6018. 
Distrib. South America, Africa, African Islands. 
