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53. Asplenium Odontites, K. Br. Frond pinnate ; pinn(B 

 alternate, lanceolate, acuminated, pinnatifid ; segments remote, 

 linear lanceolate, acute ; the inferior ones 2-fid. Sori sub- 

 marginal. E. Brown. Prodrom. Flor, Nov. Holland, p. 151. 

 CcBuopteris Odontites. Thbg. Schkuhr. Filic, tab. 82. 



Found by Thunberg ; locality not recorded. 



54. Asplenium stans. Kze. Frond 2-pinnate, glabrous ; 

 pinnce deeply pinnatifid, almost opposite ; segments spathulate- 

 linear, obtuse, lower ones 2-partite. Sori sub-marginal ; 

 rachis winged. Stipes compressed, nearly 4-angular, smooth. 

 Caudex sub-globose, clothed with stiff, acute, imbricated, 

 blackish-brown scales. Kunze. Linn^ea., vol. 10, p. 521. 

 Ccenopteris furcata. Berg. Darea stans. Bory. 



In the forests of Swellendam, George, Uitenhage, and Kaffraria. 

 V. s. 



55. Asplenium rutcefolium. Kze. Fronds 2-pinnate, smooth; 

 pinnce and pinnules alternate, remote ; the inferior pinnules 

 deeply pinnatifid ; the middle ones 2-3-partite ; terminal ones 

 simple ; segments linear, obtuse. Sori sub-marginal ; rachis 

 not winged, ^S^zjoe^ compressed, glabrous. Caudex palQuceo-aa. 

 Kze. Linnaea., vol. 10, p. 521. Ccenopteris rutcefolia. Berg. 

 Darea rutcefolia, Willd. 



In the forests of Swellendam, George, Uitenhage, and Natal, v. s, 

 XV. CETERACH. WILLD. (3 Specics.) 



56. Ceterach officinarum. Willd. Fronds pinnatifid ; the 

 segments oblong, obtuse, thickly covered at the underside 

 with entire, rufous scales. Willd. Spec. Plant., vol. 5, p. 

 136. Schkuhr. Filic. tab. 7, f. b. 



In crevices of rocks near the Baviaan's River. (Krebs.) 



57. Ceterach capensis. Kze. Fronds pinnate or pinnatifid, 

 oblong, obtuse; the pinnce. and segments decurrent, ovate 

 oblong, blunt, crenate, incised, sub- cordate at the auricled 

 base, and clothed beneath (as well as the flexuose rachis and 

 the stipes) with rufous scales. Kze. Linnasa, vol. 10, p. 

 496. Qymnogramme cordata. Hook. & Grev. Icon. Filic, 

 tab. 156. 



On rocks and walls near Cape Town ; also at the entrance of the 

 forests near Olifant's Hoek and Bushman's River (Uitenhage) ; 

 at the stems of old trees in Albany ; at the Kat River, etc. v, v. 

 and s. 



