41 



Sori minute, numerous, scattered. Rhizome creeping, scaly. 

 Polypodium irioides. Poir. Spreng. Syst. Vegetab., vol. 4, 

 p. 48. 



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



122. Phymatodes elongata. Presl. Frf?7zrf linear-lanceolate, 

 narrowed at both ends, entire, subcoriaceous, smooth. Sori 

 impressed in one single row on each side of the costa. Caudex 

 creeping. Polypodium elongatum. Schr. Schlecht. Adumb., 

 p. 16, tab. 7. 



On the stems of old trees in the forests of George (Mundt. 

 Ecklon), near the bath of Olifant's River (Rev. Hesse.); in Block- 

 house Kloof, Graham's Town (Dr. Atherstone); near Boontjes 

 River, &c. (Drege.) v. s. 



XXXV. NIPHOBOLUS. KAULF. (1 SpCcieS.) 



123. Niphoholus africanus. Kze. Frow^ lanceolate, shortly 

 stalked at base, costate, margined, stellate tomentose and 

 hoary beneath, rather smooth above; top of the sterile frond 

 shortened, blunt ; fertile one narrowed into a long, obtuse, 

 soriferous apex. Sori minute, confluent. Caudex creepino-, 

 densely scaly. Kze. Linnaea, vol. 10, p. 501. Suppl. to 

 Schkuhr's Filic, tab. 33. 



Between rocks and on the trunks of trees in the woods of Natal. 

 (Drege.) v. s. 



IX. GRAMMITACE^. Presl. 



XXXVI. GRAMMITIS. PRESL. (1 Species.) 



124. Grammitis totta. Presl. Fronds pinnate, lanceolate, 

 membranaceous (and as well as the stipes and rachises) hairy 

 on both sides ; pinnce alternate, sessile, pinnatifid, lanceolate, 

 acuminated ; the upper ones adnate, confluent, the lower ones 

 remote ; segments opposite, ovate, blunt, gnawed, ciliated ; 

 sori linear, small. Stipes short ; rhizome descending ; roots 

 filiform. Gymnogramma totta. Schlecht. Adumb., p. 15, 

 tab. 6. 



Near the cataract on the Devil's Mountain (Mundt. Pappe) ; in 

 a wood near Koratra (Drege) ; in the forests of the Knysna (Dr. 

 Krauss.) 



XXXVII. GYMNOGRAMMA. DESV. (3 SpCcies.) 



125. Gymnogramma conspersa. Kze. Frond delicate, 

 membranaceous, pale green on the upper surface, and covered 

 beneath with a white mealy substance, ovate triangular. 



