DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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§§§ Frond 2-pinnate. 
26. D. zambesiaca. Veinlets simple, sori medial, indusium fu- 
gacious. 
§§§§ Frond 3-pinnatifid, or more cut. Veins free. 
27. D. elo 7 igata. Lower pinnae larger than those above, with 
sharply toothed pinnules. Frond triangular, herbaceous. 
28. D. inaequalis. Lower pinnae not larger than those above ; 
frond ovate-lanceolate, herbaceous ; pinnules sharply toothed. 
29. D. athamantica. Fronds widest below, sub-coriaceous, and 
with bluntly toothed pinnules. 
30. D. Buchanani. Fronds 3-pinnate, deltoid, herbaceous, with 
the rachis set with spreading hair-like scales. 
31. D. Lastii. Fronds large, herbaceous, decompound, glabrous, 
deltoid ; pinnules lanceolate, segments quarter-inch wide, cut into 
oblong toothed lobes. 
32. D. lanuginosa. Fronds 3-pinnate, very large, villose on both 
surfaces, and with villose stipe and rachis. Indusium villose. 
33. D. cre?iata. Fronds 3-pinnatifid, deltoid, small ; crown clothed 
in red scales. Indusium reniform, but unequal sided. 
1 6. Dryopteris orientalis (Gmel.) C. Chr. 
Plate 9. Nat. size, b Fertile pinnules, enlarged. 
Rhizome long, creeping, slender, fibrillose. Frond herba- 
ceous, ovate-lanceolate, two-pinnatifid, strongly and pleasantly 
scented, minutely pubescent on one or both surfaces, twelve to 
eighteen inches long, six inches broad, with a short pubescent 
stipe, which is articulated to the rhizome. Middle pinnae one- 
half to three-quarter inches broad, and about four inches long; 
lower pinnae rather shorter, all sessile, lanceolate acuminate, 
cut to very near the mid-rib into blunt, oblong pinnules, all 
entire except the lower ones, which are slightly toothed. Sori 
mostly in the upper part of the frond, one to each pinnule, 
terminal on the lower veinlet on the upper side. The pinnae 
have a line of white dots near the margin on the upper surface, 
from which the name has originated. 
Dryopteris orientalis (Gmel.) C. Chr. Index , 281, 1905. 
Nephrodium albo-punctatmn. Desv. Ann. Linn. vi. 255 ; Hooker 
and Baker, Syn. Fil. 264; Wood, Natal Ferns , 27; Sim, Ferns of 
S. Africa , 1st ed., 173. 
