DESCRIPTIONS OF JHE SPECIES 
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ii. Hymenophyllum UNCINATUM Sim. (New species.) 1 
Plate 5. Fig. 1. Nat. size. B Pinna, enlarged, c Involucre, 
enlarged. 
Frond six to nine inches long, three-quarter to one inch 
wide, linear lanceolate, tapering somewhat to both ends, mostly 
2-pinnate, firm in texture, rather coriaceous, glabrous, and 
with a short wiry stipe. Rachis rigid, wiry, glabrous, not 
winged. Pinnae alternate, two to four lines apart, simply 
pinnate or with some pinnules simply forked. Pinnules four 
to eight, two to four lines long, half line wide, strongly nerved 
and sharply toothed, rounded at the apex, and free or slightly 
winged at the base ; pinnae somewhat secund, each pinnule 
recurved, giving a densely hooked appearance to the frond. 
Sori replacing the inner pinnules of upper pinnae, deeply 
2-valved, free from lamina, oblong, rounded and slightly 
ciliated at the apex ; receptacle not exserted. A distinct 
and beautiful species. 
Table Mountain, Cape Town. Theo. Kassner, 1007. Dec. 1891 (in 
the Transvaal Museum Herbarium). 
In my first edition (page 51) reference is made to a barren 
specimen of this in the Government Herbarium, Cape Town, 
which in the absence of more complete material was placed 
under H. tunbridgense , but the specimens now seen show it 
to be quite distinct. 
1 11. Hymenophyllum uncinatum Sim. (Species Nova.) 
Tab. 5. Fig. 1. Mag. Nat. b Ein.na, amplific. C Involucre, amplific. 
Folia 6 — 9" longa, f — 1 " lata, lineabia-lanceolata, sursum deorsum paullum 
attenuata, plerunique bipinnata, textu firma, subcoriacea, glabra, stipiti brevi, 
rigidulo imposita ; rachis rigidula, glabra, non alata ; pinnae alternantes, £ — 
distantes, simpliciter pinnatae sive pinnulis nonnullis simpliciter furcatis ; pinnulae 
4 — 8, ^ longae, latae, fortiter nervatae atque argute dentatae, apice ro- 
tundatae, basi liberae seu tenuiter alatae ; pinnae subsecundae, pinnulis singulis 
recurvatis, frondi speciem dense uncatam praebentibus ; sori pinnulas interiores 
pinnarum superiorum loco moventes, alte bivalvi, liberi a lamina, oblongi, apice 
rotundati ac tenuiter ciliati ; receptaculum non exsertum. 
Species distincta et pulchra. Cape Town, in Mont. Tab. Theo. Kassner, 
1007. Dec. 1891. 
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