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7. Onychium cupense. Kaulf. This Fern had been mis- 

 taken for a South African plant by former botanists. It is, 

 in fact, a native of Japan, and described as Trichomanes ja-^ 

 ponicum by Thunberg. Onychium japonicum. Kze. 



8. Dicksonia anthrisdfolia. Kaulf. Fronds S-pinnate^ 

 ample spreading ; pinncB ovate-oblong, pinnatifid nearly to 

 the costa ; segments oval-oblong, obtuse, dentate, soriferous in 

 the axils of the teeth ; racJiis glabrous ; costa and veins slightly 

 hairy. Hook. Spec. Filic, vol. 1, p. 79, tab. 27 P.. Kze. 

 Linnoea., vol. 10, p. 6A5. Cheilanthes anthrisdfolia (Willd?) 

 Loncldtis anthrisdfolia. Bory. (Perhaps identical with Hy- 

 polepis anthrisdfolia. Presl.) 



Locality unknown. (Bergius.) 



9. Adiantum thalictroides. Willd. Fronds 3-4-pinnate ; 

 upper pinnules stalked, semi-orbicular, cuneate-subtruncate, 

 slightly lobed ; lobes emarginate, soriferous ; involucres kid- 

 ney-shaped. Stipes roundish, smooth, black-purple, glossy. 

 Schlecht. Adumb., p. 53. (Probably a variety of A. cathi- 

 opicum. Lin.) 



On the north side of Table Mountain. (Bergius.) 



10. Adiantum rotundatum. Kze. Fronds pinnate, linear- 

 lanceolate, smooth ; pinncB alternate, stalked, approximate, 

 transversely-oblong, subfalcate, blunt ; terminal ones small, 

 obovate, truncate at base ; upper edge and apex inciso-lobate ; 

 lobes obtuse, toothed at the top ; fertile ones incised ; involucres 

 large, reniform; the base of the glabrous stipes and the 

 rachis chaffy. Hook. Spec. Filic, vol. 2, p. 53, Kze, Lin- 

 n^ea, vol. 10, p. 528. 



Locality unknown. 



11. Polypodium argentatum. Jacq. Frond 2-pinnatifid, 

 smooth, silvery at the underside ; pinnce alternate, lanceolate, 

 pinnate at the base ; segments lance-shaped, subdentate, 

 elongated. Sori clustered in the middle of the disk. SprengeL 

 Lin. System Vegetab., vol. 4, p. 56. 



12. Polypodium. tomentosum. Thouars. Fronds 2-pinnatifid 

 and, as well as the stipes, shaggy ; pinnce alternate, lanceolate ; 

 lobes oval, blunt, subcrenate. Sori in one single row on each 

 side of the midrib. Spreng. 1. c, p. 59. (Could this be 

 Polypodium Bergianum, Schlecht?) 



