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of Diana's Peak — Roxburgh; Burchell, 195; Hooker; Seemann; Mellis and others; 

 Morris, in 1883. 



Cheilanthes rnultifida, Swartz. 



Cheilcmthes rnultifida, Swartz, Synop. Fil., pp. 129 et 334 ; Hook., Sp. Fil., ii. p. 90, t. 100, B. ; 



Hook, and Bak., Synop. Fil, p. 138; Melliss, St. Hel., p. 353; Hook., Gard. Ferns, t. 39; 



Kuhn, Fil. Afr., p. 73. 

 Clieilanthes tenuifolia, Roxb. in Beatson's St Helena Tracts, p. 303 ? 

 Cheilanthes capensis, Eckl. in Uii. It., n. 168. 

 Adiantum globaium, Poir., Suppl, i. p. 141. 



St Helena. — Indigenous. On the rocks in Breakneck Valley — Burchell, 192; with- 

 out locality — Bennett; amongst rocks and stones on the somewhat barren and exposed 

 parts of the island at High Knoll, High Hill, Red Hill, Thompson's Hill, the Friar Rock, 

 Sandy Bay, &c. — Melliss; Morris, in 1883. 



Common in South Africa, and also found in Java. 



Pteris flabellata, Thunb. 



Pteris flabellata, Thunb., Prodr. Fl. Cap., p. 733 ; Swartz, Synop. Fil., p. 99; Hook., Sp. Fil., ii. p. 



185 ; Hook, and Bak., Synop. Fil., p. 161 ; Melliss, St Hel., p. 356. 

 Pteris arguta, Ait., var. flabellata, a major, Mett. ex Kuhn, Fil. Afr., p. 76. 

 Pteris elegans, Jacq., Fragm., p. 74, t. 116. 



Pteris arguta, Schl., Adumb. Fil. Prom. Bon. Spei, p. 43 ; Kunze in Linnaea, vi. p. 186. 

 Pteris semiserrata, Roxb. in Beatson's St Helena Tracts, p. 319. 



St Helena. — Indigenous. Swanley Valley — Burchell, 189 ; steep grassy banks on 

 the southern declivity of Diana's Peak, below the trees — Hooker ; without locality — >See- 

 mann, Cuming, and Houghton; Morris, in 1883. 



A common African fern, ranging from Abyssinia and Fernando Po to the Cape of 

 Good Hope ; also in Bourbon and Rodriguez. A variety occurs in Ascension. 



This, according to Melliss, is the most common roadside fern in the island, and it is 

 also abundant in the ravines on the upper lands, mostly between 1500 and 2000 feet, 

 where it selects a rocky soil. It is very plentiful about such places as Joho's Hole, and 

 even occurs on the summit of Lot and on the eastern side of High Knoll. 



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Pteris paleacea, Roxb. (Plate XX.) 



Pteris paleacea, Roxb. in Beatson's St Helena Tracts, p. 319 ; Hook., Sp. Fil., ii. p. 186, t. 133, A. ; 

 Hook, and Bak., Synop. Fil, ed. 2, p. 159 ; Melliss, St Hel., p. 356. 



St Helena. — Endemic. Burchell; Nuttall; Cuming ; Hooker; Seemann; Haughton; 

 Melliss; Morris, in 1883. 



" A less abundant species than Pteris flabellata, found at a higher altitude (at about 

 2500 feet), where its remarkable fandike fronds mingle with Dicksonia and Asplenium 

 on the mountain spurs, and in the ravines uorth and south of the Central Ridge, near 



