DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 75 
Sori terminal on the upper pinnae, or on the pinnules 
nearest the rachis lower down. 
Some of the Table Mountain specimens are much larger 
than usual, four inches long, a half inch wide, and tapering 
below ; others one inch wide, and deltoid, but all having the 
involucre as wide as, or wider than, the segments. 
H. fumarioides Willd. Sp. 5, 526, 1810; Schl. Adum. 56 (tab. 35, 
ined.) ; Kunze, No. 114 ; Kuhn, Fil. Apr. 39; C. Chr. Index Fili- 
cum , 361. 
H. rarum. (R. Brown in Prod. Flor. Nov. Holl. 1 59) ; Hk. and Bkr, 
Syn. Fil. 58; Pappe and Rawson, 137; Sim, Ferns of S. Africa , 1st 
ed., p. 47. 
H. Thunbergii. Pr. 1843; Ecklon (teste Kuhn, but not Schl. nor 
Kunze). 
H. natalense. V. d. Bosch, Syn. Hym. 46. 
H. Zeyheri. V. d. Bosch, 1859. 
H. tabulare. V. d. Bosch. 
H. flabellatum. Kaulf. 
H. capense. Schrader, Gott. Gel. Anz ., 1818, p. 919. 
South Africa and its islands. 
This was formerly included in H. rarum R. Br., but 
Christensen confines H. rarum to Australasia and revives 
the name H. fumarioides for specimens from South Africa 
and African islands only. 
West. — Table Mountain and Devil’s Mountain, 2300 feet (Bolus), 
Genadendal, Hottentots’ Holland (Lady Barkly), Sir Lowry’s Pass 
(Schlechter, 7838) ; Worcester (Miss Doidge). 
East. — Van Staden’s River (Ecklon, Drege), Howison’s Poort, Block- 
house Kloof, and Dassie’s Kranz, Grahamstown (Dr Atherstone). 
Kaff. — Above Perie Mission Station. 
Natal. — Collected by Gueinzius, but not found by Buchanan or McKen,, 
though the latter gives as recorded localities, Fort Buckingham, 
Kranz Kloof. 
Transvaal. — Houtbosch, 6800 ft (Schlechter, mixed in his 4758, Lyco- 
podium gnidioides). 
6. Hymenophyllum inaequale (Poir.) Desv. 
Plate 4. Fig. 2. Nat. size, b Part of frond, enlarged. 
Rhizome slender, wide creeping, wiry. Frond three pinna- 
tifid, deltoid, three inches long, one to two inches broad, on a 
wiry stipe ope to two inches long. Rachis zigzag, slightly 
