280 SYNOPSIS OF THE RHIZOCARPEX. 
. M. smosa Willd. Sp. Plant. v. 540. — M. glomerata Presl. 
— se rome estrial or aquatic, wide-trailing, the former minute, with 
petioles 4-1 in. and silky leaflets 3-4 “in. long; the latter with 
glabrous leaflets 4 nis, long and broad; the leaflets in both states 
deltoid, with a deeply-lobed outer edge. Pedicels solitary, erect, 
about as long as the conceptacle, adnate to its base. Conceptacle 
nearly square, horizontal, i. 12th in. long, aecregam silky ; upper 
basal tooth distinct, — obscure. Sori 
og Cape Colo 
oh APENSIS . Br. in Berl. Monatber. 1868, 428.—Middle- 
cel ¢ or subterrestrial. Petioles reach 4 ft. long; leaflets 
deltoid, thinly silky or glabrous, }-} in. long; outer edge entire or 
emarginate. Pedicels solitary, erect, 4-4 in. long, adnate to he 
Bab: —* Colony. M. villosa Burchell MSS., ae which the 
fruit is unknown, differs by its densely silky leaves, and nodes 
furnished with ond buds densely coated with japagaois shining 
— palex. 
. M. macrocarpa co in Abh. Bohm. — Wiss. iii. 580.— 
M. Delian A. Br. in Berl. Monatber. 1863, — Large, wide- 
trailing, aquatic, glabrous. Petiole }-1 ft.; ‘oaflets deltoid, 3-2 in. 
long and broad; outer edge entire or crenate. Pedicels solitary, 
erect, 4-1 in. long, adnate to nearly the whole base of the con- 
ceptacle. Conceptacle horizontal, oblong-quadrate, persistently 
a + in. long, unbordered; basal teeth obsolete. Sori 
about 2 
Hab. Cape Colony and Natal. 
. rorunpata A. Br. in Kuhn Fil. Afric. 200. — Aquatic, 
glabrous, Params wide-creeping. Petiole reaching 4 ft. ; leaflets 
deltoid, 3 . long; outer edge rounded and entire. ‘Pedicels 
solitary, e r spreading, about 4 in. long, adnate to the base of 
the soeapencia Conceptacle round-oblong, horizontal or obliquely 
ascending, 4 in. long, unbordered, Pea aR or slightly silky; 
basal teeth very obscure. Sori about 
Hab. Angola, in the alien sacle: region of the province of 
— leper Sage Very near the Cape M. macrocarpa. 
» M. eprieur; A. Br. in Flora, 1889, 801.— 
Habit’ of sey jukicehnsa | leaflets large, with a rounded < 
outer edge. Pedicel solitary, deflexed, 2-8 times as long the 
