TAB. VII. 
Geammitis cordata, Sw. — var, subbipinnata. 
Caudice brevi crasso copiose radiculoso superne paleaceo, stlpi- 
tibus csespitosis l-2-uncialibus racbique deciduo squamosis 
intense nigro-ebeneis nitidissimis, frondibus erectis flexuosis 
curvatisve subcoriaceis 3-4-uncialibus ad spithamasam snpra 
viridibus nudis subtus dense imbricatis ferrugineo-paleaceis 
pinnatis, squamis ovato-lanceolatis magis minusve longis 
acuminatis subciliato-dentatis subintegerrimisque, pinnis 
semiunciam ad IJ unciam longis remotinsculis sessilibus 
cordato-oblongis oblongisve horizontaliter patentibus iu- 
,tegris lobato-pinnatifidis magis minusve profundis non 
raro iterum pinnatis rarius subauriculatis, venis liberis 
furcatis apice clavatis, soris oblongls. 
Grammitis cordata, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 23 and 217. Willd. Sp, 
PL 5. p. 142. Gymnogramme cordata, Schlect. Adumbr, 
PL p. 16. Hook, et Grev. Ic. FiL t. 156. Acrosticlmm cor- 
datum, Th. FL Cap. p. 732. 
Hab. S. Africa; throughout the Cape Colony, I believe, 
plentiful, extending eastward to Uitenhage, and the 
elevated mountains of Macalisberg (Ecklon and Burke). 
St. Helena, elev. above the sea, 2400 feet. Dr. Alexander^ 
JR. N. ; in Herb. Nostr., and Mr. Houghton^ Herb., Trin. 
Coll. Dubl., et Nostr. 
Kunze, and following him, all succeeding authors have pronounced that 
the admirable figure of Gymnogramme cordata^ of Dr. Greville in Ic. Fil., 
is not the Grammitis cordata of Swartz ; but they refer it to the G. Capensis 
of Sprengel. We maintain, that it perfeetly accords with all the essential 
charaeters and full descriptions of the illustrious Swede : but it ill accords 
with what Kunze figures and describes ^ the G. Capensis ; nevertheless, 
we are quite willing to deelare our opinion that the two are varieties of each 
other, for we can trace them through their several stages in our Herbarium, 
in the following forms or varieties. 1. Finnata ; pinnis oblongis subin- 
tegerrimis. Ceterach Capensis, Kze. in Analect Pterid.p. 13. t. 8. Fee, Gen. 
Fil. Tab. 30. /. 4. (one pinna slightly pinnatifid). 2. Finnato-pinnatifia ; 
pinnis cordatis profunde pinnatifidis. Grammitis cordata, Sw. 1. c. and Gym- 
nogramme cordata. Hook, et Grev. 1. c. 3. Subbipinnata; pinnis angusto- 
oblongis profunde pinnatifidis pinnatisque. Gymnogramme Capensis, Spr. 
in Zeyh. FI. Cap. (Herb. Nostr.) Kze. in lAnnaa, 6.jo. 183. Ceterach Capensis, 
Fee, Gen. Fil. Tab. 30./. 3. (et Tab. Nostr, YII^. I may add, a 4th state, or a 
subvariety of the latter. 4. Nudiuscula ; frondibus parce paleaceis, squamis 
minoribus subintegerrimis. Gymnogramme Namaquensis, Fappe and J^wson, 
Syn. Fil. Afr. Austr. p. 42. This is fonnd both at the Cape, and in St. 
Helena. 
Fig. 1. Scale of the frond, f. 2. Pinnule. Jl 3. Pinnule 
showing the venation, and two sori : — magnified. 
Cent. 2. t. 7. 
