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XLI. OLPERSIA. RADDI. (2 SpecicS.) 



133. Olfersia angustata. Presl. Frond oblong, blunt, 

 smooth, tapering down into a long stipes ; fertile one longer 

 and narrower. Caudex creeping, clothed with broad fulvous 

 scales. Acrostichum angustatum, Schr. Schlecht. Adumb., 

 p. 14, tab. 5. 



In clefts of rocks on the east side of Table Mountain, at Hotten- 

 tot's Holland, Caledon, Swellendam, George, &c. v. v, and s. 



134. Olfersia conf or mis. Presl. FroTzc? oblong, acute, glab- 

 rous on the upper, paler and slightly scaly on the under 

 surface, tapering down into a stalk, entire; fertile one some- 

 what longer. Caudex creeping, paleaceous. Acrostichum 

 conforme. Sw. 



On the face of rocks on Table Mountain, at Caledon, Swellen- 

 dam, in Albany, &c. v. s. 



XLII. ACROSTICHUM. LIN. (1 SpecicS.) 



135. Acrostichum incequale. Willd. Frond pinnate, coria- 

 ceous, smooth ; pinnce alternate, lanceolate-oblong, quite 

 entire, unequally wedge-shaped at base ; all of them blunt, 

 terminated by a hard short point. Willd. Enum. Plant, vol. 5, 

 p. 117. 



In marshy soil near the Natal coast. (Dr. F Krauss, Plant.) 



V. 8. 



XII. HYMENOPHYLLE^. Endl. 



XLIII. HYMENOPHYLLUM. SM. (2 SpecieS.) 



136. Hymenophyllum tunbridgense. Sw. Fronds pinnate, 

 small, tender, quite smooth ; pinncB distichous, pinnatifid ; 

 segments linear, truncate, entire or 2-fid, and as well as the 

 supra-axillary, solitary, compressed involucres, spinuloso-ser- 

 rate ; the v«Zv^5 semi-orbicular; r«c^z5 winged above. Stipes 

 filiform procumbent. Hook, Spec. Filic, vol. 1, p. 95. 

 Schkuhr's Filic, tab. 135. d. 



In shady, moist places between rocks on Table Mountain, at 

 Hottentot's Holland, &c. v. v. and 5. 



137. Hymenophyllum rarum. R. Br. Fronds pinnate, 

 flaccid, decompound, linear oblong ; pinncB pinnatifidly incised; 

 segments entire, obtuse, erect ; involucres rhomboid, wedge- 

 shaped at their lower half, the upper forming two semicir- 

 cular entire compressed valves. Stipes slender. Hook. Spec. 



