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primary piniKB lanceolate, lower ones opposite, distant ; pin- 

 nules oblong or pinnatificl-ovate or crenulate, the lobes with 

 the margins recurved, soriferous ; sori numerous, confluent. 

 Stipes short, purplish-brown, glossy, very hairy, and more or 

 less glandular, shaggy at the base with long subulate scales. 

 Caudex almost creeping ; roots tufted. Schlecht Adumbr. p. 

 50. Kze. Linntea., vol. 10, p. 539. Hook, 1. c, p. 92, tab 

 101, b. 



Extremely changeable m form, according to the very different 

 habitats of the species. 



The following are the principal varieties enumerated by 

 Kunze, 1. c. 



1st var. contracta. Frond 2-pinnate, rather rigid, often 

 curved; pinnules approximate, oblong, erect; larger pin- 

 nules folded, and thickly clothed with rufous shag ; stipes 

 and caudex more or less smooth at base. 



2nd var. intermedia. Frond 2-pinnate ; pinnw short, 

 ovate, and as well as the minute and plane pinnules approxi- 

 mate ; base of the stipes and caudex closely surrounded by 

 long scales. 



3rd var. laxa. Frond 2-3-pinnate ; pinnce and pinnules 

 oblong-lanceolate, plane, remote, pinnatifid and incised; 

 stipes and rachises fringed with rufous hairs. Notholcena 

 capensis. A. Sprengel. Suppl. ad. Lin. Syst. Yegetab. p. 32. 



4th var. parviloba. Frond 2-3-pinnate, calvescent, pinnce 

 lanceolate, elongated, distant ; pinnules sub 3-lobed or 

 auricled at base ; lobes obtuse, convolute, middle one linear- 

 oblong ; stipes slightly paleaceous at base ; rachis paleaceo- 

 hirsute. Cheilanthes parviloba, Sw. 



In rocky, shady, or open situations, and widely diffused over 

 the whole of South Africa. ^. ^?. and s. 



* 100. Cheilanthes glandulosa. Nob. (N. sp.) Fro?id 2-3- 

 pinnate, sub-coriaceous, linear-lanceolate ; primary pinn(F 

 remote, sub-opposite at base, alternate above, erect, pinnate, 

 shortly stalked, oblong-ovate, obtuse, rough and opaque on 

 the upper, paler and almost smooth on the under surface ; 

 pinnules subsessile, oblong, deeply lobed, blunt ; lobes with 

 the margins recurved, soriferous; sori copious, confluent. 

 Stipes and rachises purple, fringed with delicate glandular 

 shag. 



