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21. LOMARIA. WILLJ). (H Specicd.) 



69. Lomaria capensis. Willd. Fronds pinnate, nienibrana- 

 ceous; sterile pinim approximate, sessile, obliquely cordate, lan- 

 ceolate, notched, aciitiiinate, not decurrent, smooth ; fertile ones 

 linear, crenate, miicronate; ribs and ^^z^c-s furrowed, paleaceous. 

 Caudex covered with large, broad, lanceolate, acute, ferru- 

 ginous scales. Blechnum capense. Schlecht. xVdumb., p. 34 

 tab. 18. 



Common in moist, shady places and near rivulets ; on the Table 

 and Devil's Mountains, and in many parts of the colony, v. v. 

 and s. 



70. Lomaria Boryana. Willd. Fronds pinnate, coria- 

 ceous ; sterile pinncE alternate, remote, narrow, linear-lance- 

 olate, entire, attenuated ; loioer ones stalked ; upper ones 

 adnate, cuneate at base, decurrent ; all of them smooth and 

 opaque on the upper surface, pale, and clothed with ferru- 

 ginous scaly wool beneath ; fertile pinnce stalked, linear, erect, 

 involute; rachis furrowed, very wooly in the upper half; 

 involucres continuous, rent and articulated at length. Stipes 

 long, surrounded at its base by awl-shaped, comose, twnsted, 

 ferruginous scales. Blechnum Boryanum. Schlecht. Adunib., 

 p. 35, tab. 19. Lomaria coriacea. Schrad. (not Kze). 

 Lomaria cinnamomea. Kaulf. Enum. Filic, p. 153. 



In the forests of the Krakakamma, Uitenhage, and uenr the 

 Kat River (Eckl. and Zeyher); in the DuToit's Kloof. ( Drege ) o s 



*71. Lomaria Dalgairnsice. Nob. (N. sp.) Fronds 

 })innate, membranaceous ; sterile j)inncB alternate, remote, 

 sessile, lanceolate- oblong, narrowed at both ends, pale beneath, 

 glabrous ; terminal ones confluent at their bases ; fertile pinnce 

 linear, straight, erect, sharp-pointed; involucres involvent, 

 lacerato-ciliate. Stipes and rachiscs clothed with wooly, ferru- 

 ginous scales. 



In the dense forests of the Knysna. (Miss Dalgairns, 185(5.) c. s 



This appears to be the Fern collected by Drege in the Da Toit's 



Kloof, and noticed by Kunze (binnaea, vol. 10, p. 50(3) as a 



variety of L. Boryana. It does not, however, answer satistdctorily 



to the short diagnosis, and seems to be distinct. 



72. Lomaria heterophylla. Desv. Fronds pinnate, cori- 

 aceous, smooth ; sterile pinnce rigid, alternate, broad at base, 

 adnate, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, sub-flilcate, entire, patent, 



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