DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
8 ; 
inches long, one to one and a half inches broad, thinly 
herbaceous in texture, with longish glandular hairs on the 
rachis, and shorter hairs on both sides of the pinnae, but 
most abundant on the under surface. Pinnae sessile, bluntly 
oblong from a wide base, cut halfway to the mid-rib into 
rounded or oblong toothed lobes, generally bearing two to 
four sori each, and sometimes with the margin infolded over 
the sori. Sori of a few capsules, enclosed in a thin globular 
involucre, which bursts from the top irregularly into three 
to five lobes. This species is placed in the Syn. Fil. in the 
division P hysematium, distinguished by having a large invo- 
lucre, and not ciliated at the edges. In the former character 
it agrees, but I find the lobes ciliated more or less as in fig. d. 
Several larger and more deeply cut specimens have been seen, 
and one frond sent by Mr Wood is fifteen inches long, three 
inches broad, with pinnae largest at the middle, there one 
and a half inch long, tapering from a base three-quarter inch 
broad, with about eight pairs of pinnules (fig. b) cut to the 
rachis a quarter to three-eighths inch long, one-eighth inch 
broad, and having about five pairs of lobes, each toothed, and 
bearing a sorus ; whole plant shortly and thinly villose. 
W. Burgessiana Gerrard. Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 48, 1866 ; Kuhn, 
Fil. Afr. 209; Sim, Ferns of S. Africa , 1st ed., 61 ; C. Chr. Index 
Filicum , 656. 
Under rocks, in South Africa only, and always at high 
altitudes. 
Kaffraria. — Eastern Provinces (Lady Barkly) ; Windvogelberg, Cath- 
cart, 5000 ft, 1897 (T. R. Sim); near Ugie, 5100 ft (Flanagan, 2672); 
Insiswa, 6000 ft (R. Schlechter, 6526) ; Pot-River-Berg, Maclear, 
5500 ft, Mch 1904 (E. E. Galpin, 6932). 
Natal. — Tugela River; Lynedoch Farm, Nottingham (McKen); Lid- 
desdale, Karkloof, Mount West, Drakensberg at Cathkin (Buchanan); 
Wellington, Rosetta, and in many places along the Berg (T. R. Sim). 
Orange Free State. — Near Van Reenen’s (Prof. Bews). 
Transvaal. — (Lady Barkly) ; Houtboschberg, 6500 ft (R. Schlechter, 
4705 ). 
Under the name Woodsia mollis J. Sm., McKen gives the 
description from Syn. Fil. of that species, and quotes as 
localities Bushman’s River (Gerrard) and Drakensberg. This 
