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erlaiicous ; margin clotted, revolute ; lowermost small, remote, 

 oMong, cnneate, rounded ; terminal one often pinnatifid ; 

 Jertile pinnce narrow, linear, sliar))-pointed ; involucres more 

 or less gnawed. Stipes and the creeping caudex paleaceous. 

 Blechnum heterophyllum. Schlecht. Adumb. p. 37, tab. 20 

 and 22, fig. 1. Lomaria gigantea and Z. hamata. Kaulf., 1. 

 c, p. 150. 



In the bushes at the foot of Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch 

 (Bers^ius) ; in forests of George (Drege.) ; Albany (Dr.Ather- 

 stone) ; and Natal (Gueinzius.) v. s. 



* 73 Lomaria cycadoides. Nob. (N. sp.) Fronds pin- 

 nate, coriaceous ; j)inncB alternate, remote, erect, sessile, 

 Sflabrous, auricled at base ; sterile ones lanceolate, oblong, 

 blunt, very veiny, revolute, glossy, entire, dotted at the 

 marorin ; fertile pinnce linear-lanceolate, recurved at the apex ; 

 rachises and angular stipes smooth ; caudex scaly, comose. 



In the woods of Natal. (Plant No. 335.) v. s. 

 A sterile specimen of the same Fern, from Madagascar, is pre- 

 served in Dr. Pappe's collection. 



74. Lomaria attenuata. Willd. Sterile fronds \)mn^\\^A\ 

 seqments lanceolate-oblong, attenuate, acuminate, entire, the 

 uppermost elongated; fertile pinnce pinnate; jjinnce Wuqkv \ 

 involucres torn, denticulated; caudex oblique, clothed with 

 long, ferruginous scales. Willd. Spec. Plantar., vol. 5, p. 

 290. Kze. Linn^a., vol. 18, p. 116. 



In shady places at Natal. (Gueinzius ) 



75. Lomaria inflexa, Kze. Fronds pinnate, lanceolate, 

 coriaceous, smooth ; sterile pinnce adnate, alternate, approx- 

 imate, patent, somewhat auricled, oblong, falcate, blunt, pale 

 at the underside ; fertile pinnce stalked, erect, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, mucronate, curvato-inflexed ; rachis purple, paleacous. 

 Stipes short, dark-purple, ebenous, surrounded at base by large 

 subulate, lanceolate, brown scales. Kunze. Linnaea., vol. 

 18, p. 117. Suppl. to Schkuhr's Filic, tab. 65. 



In moist places at Natal. (Gueinzius.) v. s. 



76. Lomaria punctulata. Kze. Fronds pinnate, glabrous ; 

 sterile pinnce alternate, sessile, sub-imbricated, linear-lance- 

 olate, auriculato-cordate, acuminate, sub-falcate, entire, re- 

 flexed and dotted at the margins ; loivermost pinnce smaller, 

 oblong, obtuse ; fertile pitince patent, remote, linear, mucronate. 



