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ceous, ovate-lanceolate, two-pinnatifid, villose in all parts, 
one to two feet long, three to six inches broad, with a stipe 
three to twelve inches long, which is villose with short de- 
flexed hairs, and at first slightly paleaceous. Pinnae alternate, 
lanceolate, two to four inches long, one-half to three-quarter 
inch broad, the lower slightly reduced, all cut to near the 
mid-rib into oblong, obtuse, oblique, crenate pinnules, which 
are widest at the base, or sometimes cut only into rounded 
lobes along the margin. Sori medial on the veinlets, oblong 
or elongated along the veinlets sunk into the frond, and 
without indusia. This has the general habit of D. Bergiana 
but is quite a distinct plant, and not merely an aberrant form 
of that fern with the fructification of Gymnogramme, in which 
genus it has usually been included. 
Dryopteris africana (Desv.). C. Chr. Index , 251, 1905. 
Gymnogramme totta. Schl. 15, tab. 6; Kunze, Linnaea^ 10, 495; Hk. 
and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 376; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr ., 1st ed., 210. 
Gymnogramme Lowei. Hk. and Gr. Ic. 138. 
Phegopteris totta Mett. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 123. 
P olypodium tottum Willd. (not Thunberg). 
Grammitis totta Presl. Pappe and Rawson, 41. 
P olypodium africanum. Desv. 1827. 
Asia and Africa; growing by streams in shade. In Africa 
it occurs in Abyssinia, Guinea Coast, Madeira, Azores, etc. 
West. — Table Mountain and Devil’s Mountain (Pappe) ; Koratra 
(Drege); Knysna (Krauss). 
East. — Boschberg (MacOwan) ; Grahamstown (Guthrie, Bolus, 1729); 
Bedford (Dr Atherstone) ; Zuurberg, 5000 ft (R. Schlechter, 6603). 
Kafif. — Katberg (Holland); Perie, Frankfort, Dohne, etc., frequent; 
Engcoba (McLoughlin). 
Natal. — Upland bush, not reaching the coast (Wood); 3000 to 4000 feet 
alt. (Buchanan); Kranzkop, Fort Buckingham, Maritzburg, and 
Nottingham (McKen). 
Transvaal. — Barberton, 1909 (Miss Williams). 
26. Dryopteris zambesiaca (Baker) C. Chr. 
Baker’s description is : “ Stipe not seen complete. Frond 
large, bipinnate, slightly hairy. Lower pinnae lanceolate, a 
foot long, i\ inch broad, cut down to the rachis into entire 
