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stout branched adpressedly paleaceous with ferruginous subu- 

 late scales, stipites clustered flexuose ebeneous black 4-6 

 inches long at first densely villoso-tomentose as well as the 

 rachis, fronds 4-6 inches (1 foot long in cultivation) 1-2-3 

 inches wide subcarnoso-coriaceous oblong obtuse canescently 

 pilose above at length glabrous-green beneath densely albido- 

 or ferrugineo-tomeutose, the tomentum mixed with membra- 

 naceous lanceolate appressed and imbricated scales of the 

 same colour generally produced on the rachis and costee bi- 

 below subtripinnate, primary pinnae subopposite ovate petio- 

 late lowest pairs distant and unequally triangular (the lowest 

 inferior secondary pinna being elongated), secondary ones 

 oblong obtuse deeply pinnatifid or again pinnate, segments 

 or ultimate pinnules ovate or suborbicular entire or the fer- 

 tile ones slightly crenulate and reflexed, sori forming a con- 

 tinuous line within the margin. — /vre. in Linncea, \. p. 501. 

 Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 45. Pappe and Rawson, Syu. Fil. 

 Cap. p. 42. Cheilanthes, Metten. Clieil. p. 22. Nothochlsena 

 Marantae, Kze. in Linncea, vi. p. 184. 



Hab. S.Africa: mountain of Uitenhage, Kaffraria, Orange River and Grika- 

 land, Ecklnn and Zei/her, and various travellers, on mountain ranges, alt. 3000 

 feet ; Macalisiierg, Burke. — A handsome species, at first mistaken for N. Marantee, 

 but it is more compound and with the lowest pair of primary pinnae obliquely 

 triangular, having the outer lowest secondary pinna; longer than the rest. AVhere- 

 evcr the pinnules are entire in this species it can hardly be distinguished from 

 N. MarantcE. 



20. N. Aschenhorniana, Kze. ; caudex; " short csespitose 

 clothed with very rigid appressed lanceolate acute scales la- 

 cerated and glanduloso-ciliate at the margins" [Liebin.], stipes 

 2^-5 inches long and as well as the rachis at first together 

 with the whole under side of the frond densely clothed with 

 lanceolate acuminated ciliated flexuose scales mixed with 

 glandular pubescence of the same colour, fronds 8 inches-1 

 foot long 2-2 5 inches broad subcoriaceous ublong shortly 

 acuminated bipinnate above slightly villous, primary pinnae 

 subopposite horizontally patent sessile from a broad base ob- 

 long gradually but bluntly acuminated, pinnules 2-3 lines long 

 oblong obtuse more or less deeply pinnatifid with rounded en- 

 tire segments, capsules black forming a marginal sorus buried 

 among the tomentum and scales. (Tab. CCLXXXVII. B.) — 

 Kze. in Linncea, xx. p. 417- Cheilanthes, Metten. Cheil. p. 21 . 

 Nothochlsena bipinnata, Liebm. Fil. Mex.p. 62. N. Galeottii, 

 Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 159. 



