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Natal Government Herbarium 7982 and 7752). Maputa, 

 Amatongaland (Forester Sehof. 1902). 



180. Lygodium Kerstenii, Kuhn. ( = L. subulatum, Bojer). 



Stem wiry, scandent. Frond glabrous, dichotomously 

 branched at the base, each pinna bipinnate or more 

 divided ; pinnules not articulated, 1-3 inches long, 

 crenate, lobed along the margin, 3-fid or with large 

 lobes at the base. Lower pinnules 3-5-lobed, the 

 central lobe largest. Fertile fronds scarcely different 

 from the barren, except that they bear the short narrow 

 spikes all along the margin. 



Madagascar and East Africa. 



Ehodesia : — Mr. Holland's specimens from Waterfall at 

 Penhalanga are the barren base-fronds from non-climb- 

 ing stems, and consequently, as occurs throughout 

 the genus, larger and more flabellate than those which 

 occur on the climbing stems. Mrs. Bennett also sends 

 from Umtali similar specimens which she states have 

 not got beyond that state during three years' cultivation, 

 but she also sends beautiful scandent specimens, fully 

 fertile, from the natural habitat. 



181. Marattia fraxinea, Smith. 



West, East, Kafir-aria, Natal (F. of S. A.) : — Insinuka, Port 

 St. John's, with lobed pinnules (Flanagan 2476). 



Transvaal : — Drakensberg (McLea). Marovuni (Burtt-Davy 

 233). Haenertsberg (Eastwood). 



Ehodesia: — Umtali (J. F. Darling ; Mrs. Bennett). Penha- 

 langa (Holland). 



182. Ophioglossum Bergianum, Schl. 



E. Schlechter, who collected this in 1892 in several localities 

 near Cape Town, distributed specimens, considering that 

 his 989 was typical 0. Bergianum, Schl., and that his 

 1017 and 1058 were a variety of the same, which he 

 named var. Harvey anum. The latter, however, are 

 Schlechtendal's 0. Bergianum, as figured in Hooker's 

 " Icones Plantarum," Plate 263, and by me in "Ferns 

 of South Africa," Plate 143, and corresponds with Har- 

 vey's and Pappe's specimens. The name var. Harveyanum 

 must therefore sink. These specimens are from Table 

 Mountain, above Orange Kloof, 700 to 1,200 feet altitude, 

 and from moist sandy ground near Wynberg, 80 feet 

 altitude, and Schlechter's 10843 collected at Lammkraal, 

 Clanwilliam, in 1897, also belongs to this. 



