146 PELLiEA. 



Pterid.p. 153. Pteris hastata, Sw. Syn. Fil.p. 105. Willd. 

 Sp. PL V. p. 391. Cassebeera, /. /Sm. Adiantum, Linn. Suppl. 

 p. 447. Pteris viridis, Fiirsk. Pteris auriculata, Thunb. Prodr. 

 p. 172. Cheilanthes hastata, Kze. in Linncea, x. p. 532, and 

 xxiii. p. 243. Pteris adiantoides, IVilld. {fide Schlecht.) Pte- 

 ris polymorpha, Poll'. — Var. macrophylla ; much larger in 

 every part. (Tab. Nostr. CXVI. B. /. 4.) Cheilanthes 

 hastata, var. macrophylla, Kze. in Linncea, x. p. 532. Chei- 

 lanthes macrophylla, Kze. I. c. xxiii. p. 244. — Var. ste7io- 

 phylla; bipinnate, pinnee and pinnules linear-lanceolate acu- 

 minate undivided or hastate lobes elongated, partial rachises 

 pubescent. Kze. in Linnoea, x. p. 533 (under Cheilanthes). 

 Pteris hasttefolia, Schrad. Pteris spiculata, Schkuhr, Fll. t. 

 100. 



Hab. S. Africa, frequent, from the neighbourhood of Cape Town to Graham's 

 Town, Natal, and Algoa Bay, numerous botanists and travellers. Island of Nis- 

 sobe, Mozanibiciue Channel, Madagascar, Dr. Lyall, Bojer. Mauritius, Telfair, 

 Carmichael, Sieber, Syn. Fil. n. 80, Wallich. Bourbon {Herb. Mies. Paris.). 



If we do not accord with Professor Kunze in referring this plant to Cheilanthes, 

 we nevertheless heartily assent to his remark in the ' Linnaa,' vol. x. p. 533, 

 " Filix, si quae uUa, magnitudine frondis, divisionumque ambitu, necnon indumento, 

 imprimis rachium partialium et stipitis, maxime variabilis," and in his uniting the 

 P. hasttpfolia of Schrader with it as a mere variety " stenophylla ;" and we cannot 

 but regret that in a subsequent Memoir (Linnsa, vol. xxiii. p. 243), he has sepa- 

 rated these plants as three distinct species, viz., 1 , Ch. macrophylla, 2, Ch. hastm- 

 folia, and 3, Ch. hastata. Our numerous specimens show to us clearly that they 

 are but one ; and Kunze himself says of his j8. canonica, the normal form, that it 

 is intermediate between his a. macrophylla and his y. stenophylla. Of this latter 

 we find so good a representation of a portion of frond in Schkiihr's ' Fil.,' t. 100, 

 under the name of Pteris spiculata, that we quote it without hesitation, and in 

 all probability there is some error in regard to the country of that plant. It is 

 given as "In Americ. Bor. Florida? s. in montibus Alleghanis saxosis, Mich." 

 Hence some have considered it to belong to Pelhea atro-jmrpurea, the only N. 

 American species which approaches it. We give here a figure of the pinnze of the 

 normal form of this plant, and of the macrophylla of Kunze. 



23. P. Bojeri, Hook.; erect straight, caudex . . . , frond 

 glabrous broad-lanceolate bi-tripinnate, primary pinnae ovato- 

 lanceolate petiolate, pinnules firm subcoriaceous sessile and 

 subdecurrent linear-oblong entire or ovate and pinnatifid 

 segments oblong terminal one elongated all obtuse entire, 

 involucres scarcely membranaceous at the edge, stipes (as 

 long as the frond) hirsute with spreading chaffy hairs and as 

 well as the rachises black-ebeneous very glossy. (Tab. CXIX. 

 A.) — Pteris lasiopteris, Bojer MS. in Hook. Herb. 



llab. Madagascar, in shady and dry places. — There is a peculiarly strict and 

 neat habit about this plant, of which I have seen only one specimen. It may 

 rank near P. hastata, and still nearer P. consobrina ; but it seems distinct from 



