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sulcatc above bhick-puiple beneath, involucres mur^^Mnate cic- 

 nulated continuous, soii rather broad." Kitiize, in Liu/Kva, 

 X. p. 535. 



Hal). Fissures of rocks, ZilveifounUiiii, Little Niima(iu;i I/ind, Cape of 

 Good Hope, Difhje. — '' I luive seen only tliice fronds (2i — 3 inclieslonp) of 

 this species, destitute of caudex : in habit it resembles small specimens of 

 Pkris jicdata ; but it isbij)iunato-i>innalirid. Our Vh.tr iamixila diflers from 

 this in the trii)innate front!, the pinn;e and pinnules peliolate, in the sulcated 

 stipes, S:c. Our Cli. tnullifiila, (J.,Jli'xa, differs in the true indusia (indu- 

 siis veris) and in the puberulous raehises, iS^c." Are. — I have myself but a 

 solitary specimen of this from Drege. It appears a pood species, with quite 

 pteroid involucres. But one needs copious specimens in different stages of 

 growth to speak with confidence. 



55. Ch. Ailicrstonii, Hook, ; root .'' caudex.'' stipes a span 

 and more long stout and as well as the princijial rachis all 

 purple-ebeneous and very glossy, frond deltoid less than a 

 span lonti everywhere glabrous coriaceous pale green 4-pin- 

 nate (pteroid), primary ])innie ovato-dcltoid and as well as 

 the secondary and tertiary ])inna3 petiolate the lower distant 

 upper ones more approximate, pinnules sessile (u|)])er ones 

 coadunate) oblong entire or pinnatifid in their lower half, 

 involucres formed of the indexed margins of the pinnides pale 

 and membranaceous at the edge rarely solitary and single 

 generally coadunate so as to be continuous the edge more or 

 less crenate or lobed. 



Hab. District of Somerset, S. Africa, Mr. Atherstone. — I possess no 

 species with which I can say this is closely allied among Clicilanthes ; nor 

 among Allosorits, to which this might with about as much propriety be re- 

 ferred. The whole Fern is 12 — 14 inches long, very hard, rigid, and par- 

 ticidarly glossy and stout in the stipes and primary raehises. — Perhaps its 

 nearest ally isKunze's C/t. deltoidea, but that is a very much smaller plant 

 and much less compound. The pinnules of Ch. Atherstonii are about 2 

 lines long and two-thirds of a line wide. 



66. Ch. citneata. Link ; caudex short creejnng, stipes 1 — 

 Ij foot long and as well as the main rachis ebeneous glossy 

 grooved on the upper side smooth, frond glabrous subcoria- 

 ceous ovate or broad-ovate acuminate 6 — 12 — 14 inches long 

 3 — () inches across tri-quadripinnatc, primary and secondary 

 piimules ovato-acuminate, the rest and the pinnules lanceo- 

 late cuneate below all of them deciurent so as to form a nar- 

 row green margin or wing on each side the furrow of the rachis, 

 ultimate pinnules shortly but sharjily almost pinigently acu- 

 minate entire or auricled on the upper inferior margin or pin- 

 natifid with lanceolate entire sharp lobes, all slightly serrated, 

 involucres marginal or subentire pale membranaceous pane- 



