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patentj oblong, acuminate, flexuose or curved ; secondary 

 pinnules sessile, divergent, ovate oblong, blunt, sub-auriculate, 

 slightly pinnatifid : segments ovate, rounded, rather notched. 

 RacJdses and the short stipes angular, flexuose, covered with 

 rufous down. Pteris coriifolia. Kze. Liunaea, vol 18, p. 

 120. 



In the dense woods of Natal (Gneinzius.) 



87. AUosnrus capensis. Presl. Fronds 2-3-pinnate, cori- 

 aceous, hairy on the under surface ; upper pinnules entire or 

 auricled at base, lower ones, divided down to the mid-rib ; 

 segments adnate, confluent at top ; margins of the pinncB and 

 their segments^ inflexed, crenulated ; involucres fringed. The 

 very robust stipes as well as the rachises muricated. Cau~ 

 dex descendant, w^oolly. Pteris capensis. Thbg. Schlecht. 

 Adumb., p. 45. 



Common in woody, rough, stony places, &c., in all parts of South 

 Africa, v. v. and s. 



88. AUosorus aqutlinus. Presl. Fronds 3-partite coriace- 

 ous ; branches 2-pinnafe ; pinmdes sub-sessile, linear-lanceo- 

 late, the superior ones undivided, the inferior ones pinnatifid ; 

 segments remote, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse. Stipes smooth. 

 Pteris aquilina, Lin. Schkuhr. Filic. Tab. 95. 



In a forest on the sources of the Kat River near Philiptown. 

 (Eckl. & Zeyher.) 



XXIV. CEYPTOGRAMMA. R. BR. (1 SpecieS.) 



*89. Cryptogramma rohusta. Nob. Fertile //witi 3 inches 

 high, 2-pinnate-pinnatifid, oblong, smooth ; pinnules and 

 segments oblong-ovate, blunt, wedge-shaped at base. Rachises 

 and the short channelled stipes curved or flexuose, purple, 

 glabrous. Caudex stout, creeping, paleaceous. Allosorus 

 robustus. Kze. Linnsea, vol. 10, p. 502. 



Between rocks near Goedemanskraal, Namaqualand. (Drege.) 

 V. s. 



XXV. ADIANTUM. LIN. (2 Species.) 



90. Adiantum Capillus Veneris, Lin. Frond 3-4-pinnate 

 ovate ; pinnules delicately membranaceous, smooth, obliquely 

 broad cuneate, tapering into a slender stalk ; the superior 

 edge deeply and irregularly inciso-lobate ; lobes obtuse or 

 truncate, soriferous. Sari as broad as the lobes, oblong or 



