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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
Bazija have sori much larger than usual, and sometimes two to 
a segment, but are otherwise the same as the ordinary form. 
Hemitelia capensis R. Br. (Linn. fil.). Klf., Enum. 253, 1824; Schl. 
Aduin. 55 ; Kunze, Linnaea, 10, 552: 23, 257 ; Pappe and Rawson, 1 1 ; 
Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 162 ; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 29; Sim, Ferns of 
S. Africa , 1st ed., 59; C. Chr. Index Filicum, 348. 
Alsophila cape?isis J. Smith. Hk. Sp. Fil. 1, 36, 1842. 
Amphicosmia riparia. Gardner, Lond. Jour. Bot. 1, t. 12. 
Polypodium capense Linn. Thunb. Prod. 172 ; Thunb. Flora Cap. 735 
(teste Kuhn). 
In moist ravines in shade all through the upper part of 
the forest region, especially by waterfalls or perennial dashing 
streamlets, more common inland than on the coast. In Natal 
in midland districts only, at 2000 to 3000 feet altitude. Found 
also in Mascarenes and S. America. 
West. — Table Mtn, Kerstenbosch, Paradise (Ecklon), Dutoitskloof 
(Drege), Swellendam (Zeyher), Knysna. 
East. — Krakakamma; Fern Kloof, Grahamstown (Atherstone) ; Bed- 
ford, etc. 
Kaff. — Bazija (Baur), Katberg (Smith), Perie, Chumie, Dohne Hill. 
Natal.— From Inanda to Umpumulo (Buch.), Noodsberg (McKen)^ 
Benvie (Marriott), Buccleuch (W. Leighton). 
Transvaal. — Barberton, 5000 ft. (G. Thorncroft, 371 and Burtt-Davy,. 
4559 -) 
Fetters from Rhodesia speak of a tree fern with tall,, 
slender stems, but no fertile specimen has come to hand. 
Sub-Order III. Polypodiaceae. 
^Woodsieae. 
Genus 5. WOODSIA R. Brown. 
Small herbaceous ferns, with the sorus at first enclosed 
in the round involucre, which bursts at the top into several 
irregular more or less ciliated lobes. A small genus of about 
25 species, of which only one species is African. 
14. WOODSIA BURGESSIANA Gerr. 
Plate 44. Fig. 2. Nat. size, b Pinnule of large frond, c Involucre 
and capsules, enlarged, d Lobe of involucre, magnified. 
Crown tufted ; fronds lanceolate, pinnate, four to eight 
