480 MISS L. S. GIBBS ON THE 
OPLISMENUS sp. 
Victoria Falls, Rain Forest and islands. Sept. 158. 
No flower or fruit. One of the chief carpeting plants in the 
Rain Forest. 
PorveopnrackEx. (Mr. J. G. Baker.) 
CYATHEA Dreger, Kunze. 
Matopo Hills, near American Mission, by streams. Oct. 292. 
Distrib. Nileland, British Central Africa, Nyassaland, Zambesi 
District, South Africa. 
ADIANTUM CAUDATUM, Linn. 
Victoria Falls, Rain Forest and kloofs of lower gorge. 
Sept. 180; also Matopo Hills, Mtchabesi Valley. 316. 
Distrib. East Tropical Africa and Transvaal. 
ADIANTUM CAPILLUS- VENERIS, Linn. 
Matopo Hills, Malami River. Sept. 20; also at Victoria 
Falls, Rain Forest, and Livingstone Island. 
Distrib. Cosmopolitan. 
ADIANTUM Oarrsir, Baker, in Oates, Matabeleland, ed. 1, 
App. p. 369. 
Victoria Falls, Rain Forest, bordering stream. Sept. 317. 
(Only dead fronds.) 
Distrib. Zambesi District, Ngamiland, Crocodile River. 
CHEILANTHES HIRTA, Swartz. 
Matopo Hills, kopjes, general. Sept. 90. 
Distrib. Angola, Mascarenes, and South Africa. 
This species was only seen in the drought condition of the 
dry season, the pinnz rolling up to the rachis. It soaks out in 
water. 
CHEILANTHES MULTIFIDA, Swartz. 
Matopo Hills, under overhanging rocks. Sept. 69. 
Distrib. Tropical Africa, Natal, Cape Colony. 
CHEILANTHES FARINOSA, Aaulf. 
Victoria Falls, Rain l'orest, and Knife Edge. Sept. 6. 
Distrib. Tropics of Old and New World. 
PELLEA GERANIÆFOLIA, Fée. 
Matopo Hills, kopjes. Sept. 291. 
