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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
inch broad, cut down to the rachis into contiguous oblong 
quaternary lobes. Sori costular. Indusium firm, glabrous, 
persistent. Namuli Mukua Country, South-East Tropical 
Africa. J. T. Last. Near N. scabrosum .” This is unknown 
to me. 
Dryopteris Lastii (Baker). C. Chr. Index , 274, 1905. 
Nephr odium Lastii. Baker, Ann. Bot. 5, 324, 1891. 
Aspidium. Hier. 1895. 
32. Dryopteris lanuginosa (Willd.) C. Chr. 
Plate 21. Nat. size. 
Crown sub-erect. Fronds scented, herbaceous, villose on 
both surfaces, three-pinnate or three-pinnatifid, deltoid, or 
ovate-deltoid, four to five feet long, three feet broad, with a 
stipe two to four feet long, which like the rachis and frond is 
finely villose. Pinnae widely lanceolate, pointed, the lower 
ones two feet long, unequally deltoid, with longer pinnules 
on the lower side. Pinnules lanceolate, cut to the mid-rib 
into oblong segments half-inch long, and three lines broad, 
which are obliquely connected by the whole base, rounded at 
the apex, and cut along the margin into three to five pairs 
of oblique rounded lobes. Veinlets forked or trifid. Sori 
abundant, medial. Indusium persistent, villose. 
Dryopteris lanuginosa (Willd.) C. Chr. Index , 273, 1905. 
Nephrodium catopteron. Hk. Sp. 4, 137; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fit. 
284; Wood’s Natal Ferns, 28; Sim, Ferns of S. Apr ., 1st ed., 185. 
Aspidium catopteron. Kze, Linnaea , 10, 550, 1836. 
Lastrea catoptera. Pappe and Rawson, 12. 
Aspidimn lanuginosum. Willd. 1824; Kuhn, Fit. Afr. 135. 
Lastrea lajiuginosa. Moore’s Index , 87, 1858. 
Nephrodium elatum. Desv. (not N. elatum Baker). 
Aspidium odoratum. Sieb., Mett. (not N. odoratum Baker). 
South Africa and Mascarenes; growing in shade near 
streams. 
West. — George, and Knysna (Lady Barkly) ; Koratra (Drege). 
Kaff. — Near Mission Station, St Augustine, Transkei (Baur, 221) ; 
Bashee (T. R. Sim). 
