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fronds drying to a dirty olive-brown colour. In the 23rd volume of tie 

 * Linnaca,' Kunze refers the species to " Ch. priiinosa, Kaulf." : — but 

 Kaulfuss' name is prainata, and that name must have been given from a 

 character which does not exist in the perfect specimens of the species, and 

 which was probably the effect of some injury, " pinnule supra crnsta tar- 

 tarea tcctae." 



31. Ch. ///;•/«, Sw.; roots tufted, caudex subrepcnt, stipites 

 short 2— 4 — 6 inches long glossy purple-brown terete very hairy 

 and more or less glandular shaggy at the base with very long 

 glossy fuscous subulate scales, frond 1 — 1^ foot long lanceolate 

 or broad oblong-lanceolate lengthened (in outline and circum- 

 scription) by the small contracted distant pairs of lower pinna), 

 subcoriaceous hairy on both sides bipinnate or tripinnate, pri- 

 mary pinnae crowded or lax lanceolate the lower ones opposite 

 very distant gradually becoming small the lowermost pair of- 

 ten scarcely a line long, pinnules oblong or ovate pinnatifid or 

 crenulate, the lobes with the margin recurved and bearing the 

 copious more or less confluent son. (Tab. CI. B.) Sw. 81/71. 

 Fil. p. 128 et 329. Will. Sp. PL v. p. 458. Adiantum Caf- 

 frorum, Sw. in Schrad. Journ. 1800, ii. p. 85. Blume, En. 

 Fil. Jav. p. 137. Kunze, in Linncea, x. p. 539. — Var. ;?«;•- 

 viloha ; frond bi- tripinnate calvescent, pinna3 lanceolate 

 elongate and remote, pinnules sub-trilobed or auriculate at 

 the base, lobes obtuse convolute, middle one oblong-linear, 

 stipes slightly paleaceous at the base, rachis paleaceo-hirsute. 

 Ch. parviloba, Siv. Syn. Fil. p. 128 et 331. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope: extending East to Graham's Town and Port 

 Natal, thence North to iMacalisberg, {Burke). Lofty mounlains of Java, 

 Blume, in Herb, nostr. — It wouUl be liardly possible, with the most elaborate 

 figures, to give a good idea of this protean species. The accurate Kunze enu- 

 merates four forms in the ' Linnaea,' vol. x. ; but it would be as easy lo con- 

 stitute twenty as four.— The more usual state of the plant from the vicinity 

 of Cape Town, is to be from a span to a foot high, narrow, 2 inches broad, 

 the primary pinnules pointing upwards, most of them very approximate, the 

 lower small ones always distant : from this form there are various gradations, 

 in various districts, to the state which appears common at Uitenhage and 

 Graham's Town {Mr. Athentone), whence wc have copious specimens from 

 1^ to 2 feet long, 4 and 5 inches wide, the primary pinna) lax, horizontally 

 patent, even the upper ones distant, the secondary pinnae with the lower 

 pinnules much longer than the rest, pinnatifid with longer laciuiae, and the 

 whole of these pinnae (not the stipes and rachis) in some specimens quite 

 glabrous. These would come under the var. laxa, Kze. Blume's plant 

 from Java is identical with the more common African one. 



32. Ch. indutay Kze. ; " frond oblong obtuse coriaceous 

 4 — 5 inches long'subquadripinnate, pinna3 rather remote pe- 

 tiolate adscending, pinnules shortly petiolate ovate, secondary 



