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rachises and the angular, striped stipes scaly. Schlecht, 

 Adumbr., p. 24, t. 13. 



Within the Colony, at places unknown. (Bergius. Mundt.) 

 and in a swampy forest near Port Natah (Gueinzius.) 



* 49. Asplenium lohatum. Nob., n. sp. Fronds 2-pinnate, 

 membranaceous ; pinnce alternate, shortly stalked, ovate- 

 oblong, obtuse ; pinnules obovate-cuneate, inciso-crenate, the 

 basal-one broader, remote, 3-lobed. Sort oblong-ovate, con- 

 fluent; partial rachises margined, smooth ; stipes slightly scaly. 



In woods of British Kaifraria (Captain Espinasse), Albany 

 (Mr. Hutton and Dr. Atherstone), in the Tzitsikamma (Dr. 

 Rubidge.) v. s. 



* 50. Asplenium gracile, Nob. n. sp. Fronds 2-pinnate, 

 membranaceous, smooth ; pinncB alternate, stalked, patent, 

 ovate-oblong, rounded at the apex; pinnules obovate-cuneate 

 decurrent, bluntly incised, upper-ones confluent, lowermost 

 broader, auricled, stalked. Sori solitary, remote, irregular, 

 elliptical. The channelled stipes and flexuose winged rachises 

 perfectly naked 



In the primaeval forests of Natal. (Gueinzius.) v, s, 



51. Asplenium Dregeanum, Kze. Fronds pinnate linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, membranaceous, smooth ; pinnce alternate 

 short-stalked, obliquely sub-ovate blunt, those of the apex 

 smaller, cuneate-obovate ; all of them truncate and more or 

 less auricled at the upper, quite entire at the lower base ; 

 inciso-pinnatifid at top and the upper margin ; segments 

 oblong, rounded, incised, the lowermost wedge-shaped, 2-3- 

 fid. Sori solitary ; stipes short ; rachis partly flexuose, sub- 

 margined, scaly. Caudex creeping. Kze. Linn^ea, vol. 10, 

 p. 517. Suppl. to Schkuhr, Tab. 27. 



In a shady valley on a cataract near the Omzamcaba River, 

 Natal. (Drege) v. s. 



52. Asplenium Thunhergii, Kze. Fronds pinnate, linear 

 lanceolate acuminated, membranaceous ; pinnce alternate, 

 ovate-oblong, deeply pinnatifid, erect, somewhat curved, 

 \)\\xTit', segments oblong-cuneate, entire; lower ones 2-fid; 

 lowermost broad lobed. Sori solitary, linear-oblong, sub- 

 marginal ; stipes short, channelled ; rachis margined. Kze. 

 Linnaea, vol. 10, p. 517. Ccenopteris auriculata Thbg. 

 Darea auriculata "Willd. 



In forests at Natal, (Gueinzius.) v. s. 



