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VIII. POLYPODIACEiE. Presl. 

 XXX. POLYPODIUM. LIN. (3 Species.) 



113. Polypodium vulgare. Lin. Frond deeply pinnatifid, 

 its segments linear lanceolate, blunt, crenulate at the marg-ins, 

 approximate ; upper ones gradually smaller. Sori circular, 

 placed in a single line on each side of the midrib at the upper 

 portion of the frond. Rhizome creeping, chaffy. Schkuhr's 

 Filic, tab. 11. 



In the fissures of rocks on Table Mountain ; also at George, 

 Albany, Kat River, and in Kafirland. v. s. 



1 14. Polypodium. Ecklonis. Kze. Frond lanceolate-ovate, 

 deeply pinnatifid ; segments broad at base, remote, alternate, 

 patent, oblong, rather blunt, perfectly entire, glossy on the 

 upper side, and covered below (as well as the costa and the 

 stipes) with loose scales. Sori cushioned, submarginal. Kze. 

 Linnaea, vol. 10, p. 498. 



Parasitical on old trees in the forests of Uitenhage, Beaufort, 

 and Kaffraria (Eckl. & Zeyh.) ; also at Natal (Drege.) v. s. 



115. Polypodium Bergianum. Schlecht. Fronds hairy on 

 both sides : pinncB alternate or opposite, pinnatifid, acute ; 

 segments alternate, oblong, obtuse, ciliated, slightly gnawed 

 at the borders. Stipes and rachises clothed with shaggy down ; 

 sori small in one row between the midrib and the margin. 

 Schlecht. Adumb., p. 20, tab. 9. 



In shady places at the foot of Table Mountain, Witteboom, and 

 Kirstenbosch (Bergius, Mundt, Drege), near the cataract on the 

 Devil's Peak (Ecklon), at Natal (Dr. Krauss.) 



XXXI. GONIOPTERIS. PRESL. (1 Specics.) 

 * 116. Goniopteris silvatica. Nob. Frond pinnate 3-4: feet 

 high, smooth, dark green at the upper, pale at the underside^, 

 sub-coriaceous ; pinnce obliquely truncate at base, sessile, 

 oblong-lanceolate, long and narrowly tapering towards the 

 apex, acuminate, remote, inciso-pinnatifid ; loicer ones nearly 

 opposite, upper ones alternating ; segments oblong, falcate, 

 obtuse ; veins, rachises, and the 3~cornered furrowed stipes 

 slightly downy ; sori minute. Gymnogramma unita. Kze. 

 Linnasa, vol. 18, p. 115. 



In the primaeval forests of Natal. (Gueinzius.) v. s. 



XXXII. MARGINARIA. BORY. (1 SpCcieS.) 



117. Marginaria ensiformis. Presl. Frond coriaceous. 



