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quite entire. Stipes glossy, stramineous. Campteria Rottle- 

 riuna. (Presl.?) Pteris nemuralis. Willd. (?) 



In shady localities and clifts. Magalisberg. (Zeyher.) ; in the 

 forests of Natal. (Plant.) v. s. 



Very like Pteris Catoptera. Kze., but sufficiently different by 

 the venation. 



XXIII. ALLOSORUS. BERNH. (8 Species.) 



81. Allosorus hastatus. Presl. Fronds 2 or sometimes 3- 

 pinnate at the lower extremity ; pinnce and pinnules stalked, 

 alternate, ovate-lanceolate, blunt, eared, or 3-lobed at base, 

 notched, smooth or downy at the rihs, crenate and revolute 

 at the margin. Stipes half round, channelled on the upper 

 side, glabrous, glossy or paleaceous, and covered at its base 

 with large linear-acute black-purplish scales. Pteris auricu- 

 lata. Thbg. Pteris hastata. Schlecht. Adumb., page 42. 

 Cheilanthes liastata. Kze. Linngea, vol. 10, p. 532. 



In the forests of Swellendam, George, Uitenhage, Albany, &c. 

 V. s. 



Of this very variable Fern, the following two are the most 

 striking forms. 



1st var. macrophylla. Kze. Fronds pinnate, or some- 

 times 2-i3innate at base ; pinnce and pinnules ovate, cordate, 

 or sub-hastate, somewhat falcate, auricled, very smooth, often 

 3 J inches long and 2^ inches broad. Linnaea, vol. 10, p. 532. 



In the aboriginal forests of the Krakakamma. (Ecki. & Zey- 

 her), and at Natal (Gueinzius. Plant.) v. s. 



2nd var. stenophylla. Kze. Fronds 2-pinnate ; pinncR 

 and pinnules linear-lanceolate, acuminate, narrow, hastate, 

 middle lobe elongated, nearly two inches long ; petioles short, 

 and as well as the rachises, downy. Kze. Linnaea, 1. c. p. 533. 

 Pteris hastcefolia. Schrad. 



Near Philipstown, Kat River. (Eckl. &Zeyh.) v. s. 



82. Allosorus Calomelanos. Presl. i^ro7z^.<f 2-pinnate, or 3- 

 pinnate in the lower half; pinnce -andi pinnules stalked, alter- 

 nate, 3-angular-cordate, obtuse ; terminal ones cordate, often 

 5-angular, all of them coriaceous, smooth. Stipes flexuose, 

 slightly paleaceous at base, and like the rachises brittle, 

 j^olished and ebenous. Caudex tufted, sub-globose, and 

 thickly clothed with narrow ferruginous scales ; roots fibrous. 



