Dregean^. 



N. O. Filices 



TAB. CCXXXVI. 



Anemia Dr^geana. Kze. 



Fronde sterili linear i-oblonga pinnata, pinnis subsessilibus, 

 oblique ovatis obtusis subauriculatis basi sursum truncatis 

 deorsum cuneatis, margine crenulato, subtus ad venas strigosis, 

 supra glabris nitidulis, fertili apice tripartita, partitionibusdua- 

 bus fertilibus tripinnatis, tertia sterili pinnata, stipite rachi- 



busque utriusque frondis villoso-paleaceis. Kunze, 

 Anemia Dregeana. Kunze^ Acotyh Afr. Austr. Hecens. l./»- ]3- 

 Hab. Shady clefts of rocks in woody places at Omsamwubo, 



and at the great cataract between Omsamwubo and Omsara- 



caba, Southern Africa. Drige, 



Hitherto the Genus Anemia had been considered exclusively 

 an inhabitant of the New World : but the pi'esent is one of the 

 many important discoveries made by the German botanist Drege, 

 in Southern Africa. Kunze, in the little work above quoted, 

 has made 2 vars., but upon very slight grounds; — a. pinnis 

 sterilibus ovato-oblongis obtusiusculis; — jS. pinnis sterilibus bre- 

 viter ovatis obtusissirais. — Our specimens of « exhibit both these 

 kinds of pinnae. 



