DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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Kafif. — Pondoland (Drege), not found or recorded from Kaffraria. 
Natal. — Common from the coast to Umpumulo and Maritzburg 
(Buchanan); Inanda (Wood) ; Noodsberg (McKen); frequent (T. R. 
Sim) ; Buccleuch (W. Leighton). 
Transvaal. — Nelspruit, 2350 ft (F. A. Rogers, 58 and 369). 
Rhodesia. — Small islands on the Zambesi (Holland) ; Victoria Falls, 
banks of river and of islands (Miss Gibbs, 15 1 ; Rev. F. A. Rogers, 
5318 ; J. Sim). 
Portuguese East Africa. — Matola, 20 ft, 1897 (R. Schlechter, 11687); 
Zambesi and Luaba Rivers (Kirk); Umbeluzi, Limpopo, Inhambane 
(T. R. Sim). 
Var. PROPINQUUM. 
Portuguese East Africa. — Kurumadzi River, Jihu, 2000 ft (Swyn. 861); 
Mount Maruma, common in swampy ground (Swynnerton, 860) ; 
also from the Zambesi northward. 
22. Dryopteris prolifera (Retz) C. Chr. 
Plate 14. Nat. size. 
Rhizome creeping. Frond thinly coriaceous, simply pin- 
nate, lanceolate, two feet long or more, six to eight inches 
broad, often proliferous by a bud, and with a naked stipe 
one foot long. Rachis and frond glabrous, or very minutely 
villose ; pinnae lanceolate, acuminate, sessile, from a rounded 
base, four to five inches long, one-half to three-quarter inch 
broad, cut along the margin about one line deep into rounded 
oblique lobes, with four to six pairs of veinlets meeting below 
the sinus. Veins conspicuous ; sori on the middle of the 
veinlet, often irregular or elongated as in Gymnogramme. 
Indusium absent. Wood remarks — “A coarse-looking fern, 
having much the appearance of Nephrodium uni turn , growing 
in similar places, and often in company with it; it is some- 
times erect, and sometimes decumbent and rooting at the 
point, and is easily recognised by its habit of sending out 
long branches, which take their rise from an angle between 
the main rachis and one of the pinnae, no other Natal 
Polypodium having this peculiarity.” 
A specimen sent by Mrs Bennett from Umtali has fronds 
four feet long, six inches wide below, but the upper half with 
rather distant short alternate pinnules one inch long, half 
inch wide. Nine axils have buds, some developed into fronds 
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