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Leaf lanceolate, 3-pinnatifid, hairy. 



Leaf broadly lanceolate; segments plain 2. Iiirta.. 



Leaf narrowly lanceolate; segments much infolded. 



2b. hirta var. contracta. 

 Leaf deltoid. 



Leaf 2-pinnatifid, glabrous, 2 to 4 in. long, I to 4 in. 



broad i. capcnsis. 



Leaf 3 or 4-pinnatifid. 

 Leaf glabrous, 5 to 8 in. long (or sometimes 



longer), 3 in broad 3. niultifida. 



Leaf glabrous above, glandular beneath, 3 to 



6 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad 4. Bolusii. 



1. C. capcnsis, Sw. — " Transvaal," Lady Barkly. 



2. C. hirta, Sw. — Common on rocky hills, in bush or under 

 stones in kloofs. Houtboschberg, Ze.. 5.000 ft.. Schlcchter 

 4,401; Schweizer Reneke, Wstd., Burtt-Davy 1,670; Elim, Ze.. 

 S chine; Pilgrims Rest, Ly., McLea 40, Bolus 17; Waterkloof^ 

 Pa., Janssc 106; Heidelberg, H., Miss Leendertz y62; Bokfon- 

 tein, Jenkins, in T.ALH. 770; Johannesburg, J., Petcrsson 266; 

 near Volkrust. Wm., Rogers 114. 



Var. b. contracta, Kunze. — On kopjes 4,400 to 5,800 ft. 

 Johannesburg, J., Burtt-Davy 2,122; Koodoespoort, Pa., Miss 

 Leendcrtc 622. 



3. C. muhifida. Sw. — Rocky places under small scrub, not 

 common. Houtboschberg. Ze., 6,800 ft.. Schlechter, in 

 T.M.H. 7Z2>. 



Var. b. -flcxa, Kunze. — Mamotsuiri, Ze., Junod 207. 



4. C". Bolnsii, Baker. — Makapanspoort. Wg., 4,800 ft.. 

 Schlechtcr 4.687; Houtboschberg, Ze.. 7.000 ft.. Schlcchter 



4.459- 



13. Hypolepis, Bernh. 



Sori marginal, short, in the sinus of the teeth of the pinnules. 

 Indusium a small scale, continuous with the margin and re- 

 curved over the sorus. — Rhizome creeping; leaves ample, com- 

 pound, the ultimate divisions small, the veining always free. 

 Formerly included in Cheilanthes. Only one species in the 

 Transvaal. 



I. H. Bcrgiana, Hooker. — Moist, but not wet places in the 

 Drakensberg forests. Marovuni, Ze., 2,300 ft., common, 

 Junod 236, 894. 



14. Adiaxtum, Linn. (Maidenhair Ferns.) 



Sori in an interrupted line at the outer margin of the pin- 

 nules. Indusium mostly reniform or nearly circular, con- 

 tinuous with the margin and recurved, bearing the sporangia 

 on its under surface. Pinnules with radiating veins and no 

 midvein. — Mostly small plants with compound leaves, the stipe 

 and rachis usually dark and shining. 

 Leaf i-pinnate : 



Stipe and rachis with abundant short, soft brown 

 hairs, especially at the base; pinnae with a few 

 scattered hairs on both sides, or at the margin 

 onlv I. cciudatiDii. 



