15 



with blackish scales. Aspidium luctaosum. Kze., vol. 10, p. 

 548. 



In a mountain kloof at Bedford (Dr. Atlierstone) on the wood- 

 clad mountains near Philipstown, Kat River (Bartels, tckion, and 

 Zeyher), in the forests of British Kaffraria. (Captain Espinasse) v. s, 



19. Polystichum angulare, Presl. Frond 2-3-pinnate, 

 rigid, coriaceous, acuminate, glossy above, paler beneath ; 

 pinncB alternate, distant, stalked, spreading, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, pinnate, pinnatifid at the apex, perfectly smooth ; 

 pinnules alternate oblong-lanceolate deeply incised, sharp- 

 pointed, cuneate at the base, the lowermost lobe or sen-ment 

 3-4 toothed, largest, eared. Sori small, solitary in the axils 

 of the indentations. Rachises and the angular-furrowed stipes 

 fringed sparingly with short scales. Aspidium angulare, 

 Kitaibl. 



In swamps near the Natal coast. (Gueinzius. Plant.) v. s, 



20. Polystichum coriaceum. Schott. Fronds 3-pinnate, 

 coriaceous ; pinnules ovate, wedge-shaped at the base, bluntly 

 serrate, smooth ; lower-ones pinnatifid, upper ones confluent. 

 Sari solitary, placed near the bases of the serratures. Stipes 

 and margined rachises glabrous ; rhizome thick, horizontally 

 creeping, clothed with broad ferruginous scales. Aspidium 

 coriaceum, Sw. Schkuhr, Filic, Tab. 50. 



Common in moist woody localities all over the Colony, as well 

 as in the forests of Kaffraria and Natal. — v. v. and s, 



IX. CYRTOMIUM. PRESL. (1 Specics.) 



21. Cyrtomium falcatum. Presl. Frowc?5 pinnate, smooth 

 coriaceous ; pinncB shortly stalked, alternate, broad ovate, 

 rounded at the base, falcate, acuminate, distant, blunt, 

 repando-crenate or serrate, the terminal one tri-lobed. 

 Sori globose, copious, scattered. Stipes scaly. Aspidium 



falcatum. Sw. 



In the aboriginal forests of British Kaffraria. (Captain Espi- 

 nasse, 1856.) V. s. 



X. DIDYMOCHL^NA. DESV. (I SpCcics.) 



22. Didymochlcena dimidiata. Kze. Frond 2-pinnate, 

 coriaceous ; pinnce approximate stalked, oblong-lanceolate, 

 patent, erect ; pinnules dimidiate obliquely ovate ; the supe- 

 rior margin sinuato-crenate, revolute, soriferous ; the inferior 

 one entire, here and there bristly along the costa. Stipes and 



