BOTANY. 369 
in diameter ; bracts minute, deltoid ; pedicels erecto - patent, the 
lower ones ^-| inch long. Perianth white, fugacious ; segments \ 
inch long, lanceolate, with a distinct i -nerved or obscurely 3-nerved 
brown keel. Stamens falling a little short of the perianth -segments ; 
filaments muricate ; anthers oblong, very minute. Style declinate, 
just overtopping the anthers. 
Near the Abyssinian A. Saltii, and Cape A. piibescens. 
Aloe, sp. 
Asparagus, sp. 
* Androcymbium melanthioides, Willd. 
Order GRAMINE^. 
* Panicum (Trichol^na) roseum (Nees.) 
* Andropogon, sp. 
* Andropogon (Cymbopogon) hirtus, L. 
Order FILICES. 
* Pell.«a consobrina, Hook. 
ADIANTUM vETHIOPICUM, L. 
Adiantum Oatesii, Baker. (Plate K.) 
Stipe slender, brown, glabrous. Lamina pedate, with 6-1 pinnate 
divisions, the largest 6-8 inches long, ij-ii inch broad ; end segment 
cuneate, \-\ inch broad ; side segments dimidiate, shortly petioled, 
all, except the lowest, rather ascending, imbricating over the rachis 
at the inner anterior corner, the largest \-\ inch broad, \ inch long, 
straight and truncate on the lower and inner borders, cut into deep 
rounded lobes on the upper and outer borders ; lower segments 
gradually dwindling down in size ; rachis quite glabrous and scale- 
less, bright brown ; texture thin, membranous ; both surfaces bright 
green and glabrous. Sori not seen. Veins close, fine, distinct, 
flabellate, free. 
Closely allied to the American and Asiatic A. pedatuiii, Linn., 
from which it differs by the fewer divisions of the frond, the outer 
ones not falcately curved, and its shortly-petioled ultimate segments, 
which are fewer, broader, and imbricated over the rachis. 
Adiantum lunulatum, Burm. 
Cheilanthes farinosa, Kaulf. 
Nephrodium molle, Desv. 
Nephrodium (Lastrea), sp. 
Nephrolepis exaltata, Scliott. 
Nephrolepis cordieolia, Presl. 
MOHRIA caffrorum, Desv. 
2 B 
