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continuous and quite pteroid.—Impafane, on the sides of mountain- 
streams. | 
9. (318*.) Cheilanthes /izearis, n. sp.; fronds (6 inches) smooth, 
. coriaceous, deltoid, quadripinnate; ultimate pinnules all distinct, small, 
linear, obtuse, the terminal one of the same form; sori copious, pte- 
roid; indusium continuous, narrow, very slightly undulated ; stipes (im- 
perfect) and rachises terete behind, plane and margined in front, shining 
purple. 
A few specimens closely allied to, and collected under the same No: 
with the last, but apparently distinct, though they may perhaps be the 
same species altered by exposure. It differs in being distinctly qua- 
dripinnate, in the pinnules being uniformly linear and equal-sized, the 
terminal ones distinct and of the same form, or rarely slightly auricled 
on one or both sides, not decrescent and coadunate as in C. firma. 
The surface of the pinnules too, in the latter, has the flexuose costa 
and forked veins deeply marked by depressed lines, while in C. linearis 
the surface is wrinkled and not lined.—Impafane, in rocky places. 
10. (321.) Platyloma Calomelanos, J. Sm.—Quathlamba ; hill-sides. 
` 11. (826.) Pteris hastefolia, Schrader (Allosorus, Presi ; Cheilan- 
thes hastata, var. stenophylla, Kze.).— Forest about Umvoti. Distinct 
from P. hastata, and according to Kunze reproduced with constancy 
from the spores. 
12. (307.) Pteris aquilina, L.—Sandy hill-sides. 
13. (310.) Asplenium Dregeanum, Kze.—Umgoe mountains, on damp 
rocks. 
14. (323.) Asplenium monanthemum, Sm.—Quathlamba; bush. 
Sori frequently 2-3 on the lower half of pinnz, sometimes 6-8 and 
arranged on both sides the midrib. 
15. (327.) Asplenium brachyotus, Kze.—Quathlamba, 3000 feet. 
16. (324.) Asplenium furcatum, Thunb.—Zwart-kop ; deep ravines. 
17. (328.) Asplenium rutæfolium, Kze. (Cenopteris, Berg.) —Quath- 
lamba, on trees, in wet ravines. 
18. (313.) Lastrea Plantii, n. sp.; fronds (14 feet) glabrous, ovate 
or subtriangular-lanceolate, tripinnate; pinnæ subopposite, deltoid (5- 
6 inches long, the basal pinnules 2-24 inches); pinnules linear-lan- 
ceolate, the lowest stalked, deeply pinnatifid with subfalcate lobes, the 
intermediate sessile, subfalcate, toothed, the uppermost confluent, all 
as well as the pinnules themselves directed forwards; sori crowded, 
