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Stipes short, scaly at Its base. Blechnum punctulatum. 

 Schlecht. Adumbr., p. 37, tab. 21 and 22, fig. 2. Lomaria 

 densa. Kaulf., 1. c, p. 151. 



Common in moist, shady places throughout the colony and 

 Natal V. V. and s. 



77. Lomaria jmmila, Kaulf. Fronds pinnate, smooth; 

 stejnle pinnoe alternate, sessile, oblong, obtuse, submucronate, 

 auriculato-cordate, scabrous at the margins; fertUe ones 

 linear-lanceolate, falcate, mucronate. Stipes short, and at its 

 base, as well a^ the creeping caudex paleaceous. Kaulf. 

 Enum. Filic, p. 151. Blechnum australe. Schlecht., p 38. 

 Schkuhr., Filic, tab. 110, b. 



Common between rocks and moist mountainous spots in ahnost 

 all parts of the colony; also at Natal, v. v. and s. 



78. Lomaria Spicant. Desv. F/'w/if/s pinnate, destitute of 

 scales ; sterile pinnce lanceolate, pectinato-pinnatifid ; segments 

 alternate, linear-lanceolate, rather blunt, entire, somewhat 

 falcated, the lowermost rounded, short, remote, uppermost 

 confluent ; fertile innnce pinnate ; pinncs linear, narrow, acu- 

 minate ; involucres curled. Stipes scaly at base. Blechnum 

 horeale. Lin. Schlecht. Adunib., p. 38. Schkuhr. Filic, 

 tab. 110. 



Found somewhere'in the colony. (Mr. Riche.) 



* 79. Lomaria decipiens. Nob. N. sp. (?) Sterile fronds 

 deeply pinnatifid, smooth ; segments alternate, oblong, obtuse, 

 quite entire ; loioer ones short, rounded ; terminal one elongated, 

 lanceolate, acuminate; all of them dotted at the margin. 

 Fertile fronds unknown. 



A puzzling species, and perhaps the juvenile plant of Lomaria 

 heteropht/da, Desv., but very close also to L. Spicant. 



Near Graham's Town, parasitical on the candex ot Jlsophda 

 capensis (Dr. A.therstone), and between crevices of rocks near the 

 mouth of the Klein liiver, Caledon. (Zeyher.) v. s. 



XXII. CAMPTERIA. PRESL. (1 SpecieS.) 

 80. Campteria biaurita. Hook. Fronds pinnate, mem- 

 branaceous, smooth ; pinncB, sub-opposite, sessile, pinnatifid, 

 lanceolate oblong, acute (bearing short stipule-like spines on 

 the midrib of the upperside), lowermost 2-partite ; segments 

 confluent, oblong, blunt and rounded at the apex, all ot them 



