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tinued all round the blunted apex of the puiuule, and a kind of maigin to this 

 involucre is formed by the inflection of the edge of the frond; veining indistinct; 

 midrib stout on the under side ; stipes and rachis very black and glossy, the latter 

 partially clothed with fulvous, frizzled, chaffy hairs. 



12. P. caloiiielanos, Link; glabrous, caudex short thick 

 very scaly, fronds subspithameous ca^spitose subcoriaccous 

 oblong-triangular bipinnate, pinnules all petiolulate cordato- 

 (rarely subhastato-) triangular very obtuse entire sometimes 

 subtrilobate or sinuate at the margin, the sinus deep and nar- 

 row, veins dichotomously radiated, sori continuous, involucres 

 membranaceous, stipites short scaly at the base and as well 

 as the slender rachises and petioles black-ebeneous very 

 glossy.— Lw?/C5 Fil. Hort. BcroJ. p. CA. Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 129. 

 Allosorus calomelanos, Fresl, Tent. Pterid. p. 153. Hook. 

 Bot. Mug. t. 4700. Pteris calomelanos, 8w. Syn. Fil. p. 106. 

 Willd. Sp. Plant, v. p. 393. Kze. in Linn. p. 525. Schlec/it. 

 Adumhr. Fil. Cap. 43. t. 24. Platylonia, /. Sm. Pteris has- 

 tata, Thunb. {not of others). 



Hah. Mountain districts, South Africa, growing in rocky places at elevations 

 above the sea varying from 400 to 4000 feet, according to Dreye ; about the Cape, 

 Table Mountain, etc., Dr. Pappc, Capf. Carmichael. Graliam's Town, Mr. Ather- 

 stone. Macalisberg, Zeyher and Burke, and Mr. Anderson. Isle of Bourbon, Capf. 

 Carmichael In Herb.Nostr. North-western India; Simla, Major Madden; Kumaon, 

 below Almora, elev. 4000 feet, Strachey and Winterbottom ; Tikri in Karli, Hi- 

 malaya, 5-6000 feet elev., Mr. Edgeworth. — An elegant and graceful Fern, ap- 

 parently a dry-country species, and by no means confined, as had been long sup- 

 posed, to the mountain regions of the Cape of Good Hope. We are enabled to 

 give the above localities from fine specimens in our Herbarium. It is strange 

 that Kunze (in Linuaea, vol. x. p. 525) should say of this plant, " Neque ad Allo- 

 sorum, neque ad Cheilanthem pertinet, et veros Pteridis characteres otfert." 

 There can be little doubt of its belonging to the same group or genus of Pteridece. 

 as Allosorus cordatus and its alUes. 



13. P. auriculata, Link ; glabrous, a span high, caudex 

 short stout scaly, fronds oblong-lanceolate csespitose sub- 

 membranaceous olivaceous rather pellucid pinnate very rarely 

 below sub-bipinnate, pinnules shortly petiolate triangular- 

 ovate or hastately 3-lobed or at the base pinnatifid lobes ob- 

 tusely crenulate at the margin, sori continuous or here and 

 there interrupted, involucres moderately broad membrana- 

 ceous convex or fornicate sinuato-crenate, stipes short, and 

 rachis dark-purple ebeneous. — Link. Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 129. 

 Pteris auriculata, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 103. Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 

 365. Sieb. Syn. Fil. n. 8. Schlecht. Fil. Cap. Adumb. t. 22. 

 Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 116. Pteris confluens, Thunb. Adi- 

 antum, Thunb. Cap. ed. Schultes, ii. ;;. 7-53. Cheilanthes au- 



