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identical therewilli, and I am certain that those from the Cape liere adduced, 

 and which have been taken up by Kunze under the name of CheUanthes 

 commutata, are in no way difll-rent. I bring hither the CheUanthes sjiarsi- 

 sora of Schrader, in coiise([ucnce of the remark of Kunze in the ' Linna;a ' 

 above quoted, "Sequenli (his Ch. commutata — our Hyp. anthriscifnlia) oin- 

 niuo similis videtur.'' 



15. B. elata, Pr. ; "frond triangular (triplicate)- quadri-pin- 

 nato-pinnatifid tender membranaceous, pinna3 and primary 

 pinnules petiolale suballernale very remote ereclo-patent and 

 as well as the secondary ones subsessile ovato-lanceolate very 

 acuminate, tertiary ones oblong obtuse inciso-pinnatifid of si- 

 nuated on each side slightly clothed with whitish hairs, sori 

 and true involucres semiorbiculate situated in the sinus of the 

 lacinia?, stipes elongated and as well as the rachis flexuose 

 purple clothed with reddish chaffy hairs and rough." Cheilan- 

 thes elata, Kze. in Linnaia, x. p. 542. Hypolepis elata, Pr. 



Hab. South Africa, in woods at Koratra, DrSc/e, (in Herb, nostr.)—^'' C. 

 Bergiana diflers in the pinnae and pinnules not beinp: acuminated, in the 

 segments being obliquely obovate and stipes short. C. sparsisora, Schrad., 

 according to the very short diagnosis, has the frond less divided, the seg- 

 ments nearly inciso-serrate : C. commutata lias the involucres fixed near the 

 sinus, &c." — Our own specimen from Drege is so withered and badly pre- 

 served that it would be difficult from it to speak of its affinities. As far as 

 can be judged, it is little if at all different from Hi/polepis (or CheUanthes) 

 aspera, Kaulf. sent also by Drege. 



16. H. aspera, Pr. ; " fronds tripinnate, pinnules lanceolate 

 pinnatifido-incised, segments subdentate, rachis asperous, 

 sori solitary at the superior base of the lacinije, involucres 

 squamiform-subreniform." Kaulf. — Presl, Tent. Pterid. p. 

 162. Cheilanthes aspera, Kaulf. in Linnaa, xi.jy. 186. Kzc. 

 in Linncca, x. p. 544. 



Hab. South Africa, Ecklon, Drege. — If Diege's specimen so named, 

 which I possess, be the same with Ecklon's described by Kaulfuss, the plant 

 scarcely appears to be different from H. anthriscifolia : my specimen (a 

 very perfect one) is more rigid and less deeply cut in the ultimate pinnules. 

 Kunze, too, /. c, observes, "a precedente (C. comm2ifata, Kze., C. anthris- 

 cifolia, Schlecht.) satis differre videtur, fronde rigidiori, subcoriacea ; piu- 

 uis erecto-patentibus laciniis subdcntatis, rachique aspera :" and adds "a 

 C. repente, Klfs. longius distat." Kaulfuss compares it with Hypolepis 

 (Cheilanthes) repens, " cui proxima,'' he says : the latter differing in the 

 obtuse pinnules dilated at the apex in the acnleated rachis and smaller 

 involucres.— Indeed it may be truly said that all the preceding species and 

 some of the following have a very close affinity with each other. 



17. H. Bergiana ; fronds tripinnate thin tender-membra- 

 naceous seniipellucid dark olive-green (when dry) sparsely 

 hirsute on both sides with fulvous hairs, primary pinna) ovate 

 moderately acuminated, secondary ones oblong rather obtuse, 



