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TAD. CLVI. 
GYMNOGRAMMA CORDATA. 
FILICES.—GvnaArx. Br.  PorvropnraAcEz. Kaulf.  Firiczs verme. Willd. 
Gr. Cuax. GYMANO G.HA4MM.A, Desv. | Capsule venis frondis furcatis insidentes. Indusium 
nullum. Kaulf. 
GvMNocRAMMA cordata ; fronde lanceolata pinnata, pinnis cordato-ovatis pinnatifidis, lobis ovato- 
rotundatis subtus stipiteque paleaceo-squamosis. 
Gymnogramma cordata. Schlecht. z4dumbr. Pl. p. 16. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 88. 
Grammitis cordata. — Swartz. Syn. Fil. p. 23. & 217. JF illd. Sp. Pl. p. 142. 
Ceterach crenata. —.Kaw/f. Enum. Fil. p. 85. 
Acrostichum cordatum. | ZÀunb. FT. Cap. p. 732. 
Asplenium cordatum. —* Swartz. in Schrad. Diar. Bot. 1801. p. 54." 
Haz. Ad Promontorium Bone Spei. In montis tabularis parte septentrionali, rupe Flachelip ; 
unde misit JD. Mund. 5 
Caudex, ut videtur, brevis, squamosus, radices numerosas fibrosas ramosas csespitosas emittens. 
Stipes brevis, vix unciam vel sesquiunciam longus, atro-purpureus, nitidissimus, squamosus, squamis deciduis. 
Frondes palmares, fere ad spithamseam, circumscriptione lanceolate, pinnatse, pinnis remotiusculis, alternis, sub- 
coriaceis, cordato-ovatis, vix nervosis, pinnatifidis, supra viridibus, subtus densissime paleis ovatis acuminatis 
membranaceis reticulatis fuscis tectis, lobis late ovatis, subcrenatis. 
Hachis atro-purpurea, nitida, squamosa. 
Sori in duas lineas obliquas costam versus dispositi, oblongi, tumidi. 
Capsule globosze, fuscse, brevi-pedicellatze. 
Semina flavo-fusca, subovalia, limbata, reticulata, limbo crenato. 
Fig. 1. Pinnse portio cum soris. f.2. Squama frondis. f.3. Capsule. f.4. Semina:—magn. auct. 
"This handsome Fern, like its ally Gymnogramma Ceterach, has been placed. in various genera, 
according to the views of different Botanists in regard to its fructification. The one, indeed, to 
which we have referred it, differs from Gramnatis rather in its habit and more divided fronds than 
in its sori, and is scarcely tenable. 
The species we believe to be wholly confined to the southern extremity of Africa. 
