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DISTRIBUTION : Pondolaml. Tembuland. Natal. Transvaal 

 (MacMac, Magaliesberg). 



SESUTO : Lehorometso. See Gleichenia polypodioides. Konia-Konta. 

 To i^ rumble (an allusion to the noise the enema makes in the intestine). 

 The species is the most esteemed of the ferns, used as described in the 

 note under PMaea consobriim. This is a plant the Basutos call 

 " Mong a lebitso " " The owner of the name or the one for whom the 

 name has originated," as the general name for all ferns, viz., " Leho- 

 rometso " was first applied to this species. 



N. sp. 



Ben McDhui, 9550 ft., March, Gaipin. 6938. 



N. sp.? 



Ben McDhui, 9550 ft., March, Gal pin, 6937. 



POLYPODIUM, Lin,,. 

 P. vulgare, Linn. 



Natal. Drakensbergen. See Wood's Natal List ; Orange Free 

 State, Nelson's Kop, Wood. 



DISTRIBUTION : Cape. George. Bedford. Albany. Somerset 

 East. Graaff Keinet. King William's Town. 



P. incanum, Swartz. 



Natal, Van Keenen's Pass, Kehmann, 7209. 



DISTRIBUTION : Knysna. Uitenhage. Bedford. Albany. King 

 William's Town. Komgha. Transkei. Natal. Transvaal (MacMac). 



P. lanceolatum, Linn. 



Growing in moss on mountain slopes. 2.^-9 in. high. Spring 

 (October). Makokoane, Leribe District, A. Dieterlen, 812!; Natal, 

 Drakensbergen, Buchanan. 



DISTRIBUTION : Cape. Swellendam. George. Knysna. Uitenhage. 

 Albany. Stutterheim. Komgha. Tembuland. Natal. 



SESUTO: Lehorometso. See note under CJieilantJius It i tin. 



NOTHOCHLAENA, I>V. 

 N. eckloniana, Kze. 



Mountain slopes, near or under rocks. 2-12 in. high. Spring- 

 Summer. A. Dieterlen, 81 !, 608 ! ; Natal, Cathkiu Peak, Uncltumnt. 



DISTRIBUTION : Clanwilliam. Cradock. Middleburg. Uiteuhage. 

 Fort Beaufort. Stockenstroom. Stutterheim. King William's Town. 

 Komgha. Natal. Transvaal (Magaliesberg, Trigard's Fonteiii). 



SESUTO: Lehorometso. See note under Adiaiitum Capiltus-Veneris. 



