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Schizoloma e?isifolium (Sw.). J. Smith, Jour, of Bot. 3, 414, 1841; 
C. Chr. Index , 618. 
JLindsaea ensifolia Swartz. Schr .Jour. 1800; Pappe and Rawson, 25 ; 
Kunze, Linnaea , 18, 121 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 67 ; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. 
Fil. 1 12 ; Sim, Ferns of South Africa , 1st ed., 67. 
Lindsaea pentaphylla. Hk. Sp. r, 219. 
Lindsaea lanceolata. Labill. 
Lindsaea membranacea. Kunze, Linnaea , 18, 121. 
Tropical Asia, Australia, Africa, and African islands. 
Natal. — Streamlets in Coast Bush, where it was found by Gueinzius ; 
Caedmore, Kirkly Vale near Umvoti, Attercliffe, Head of Natal Bay 
(McKen); near New Guelderland (Buchanan). 
Credited in Syn. Fil. to Cape Colony, but no locality is 
known to me. 
Asplenieae. 
Genus 18. Athyrium Roth. 
Sori short, more or less curved, often horse-shoe shaped. 
Indusium present. Eighty-six species are included in this 
genus, some of which sport into varieties more distinct than 
our three species. Athyrium was included as a sub-genus of 
Asplenium in Synopsis Filicum. 
Synopsis of the species : 
51. A. filix-femina. Crown erect. Frond two-pinnate, green; 
pinnae not widened to the base ; pinnules toothed, or slightly 
lobed. 
52. A. Schimperi. Rhizome slender, creeping. Frond one to one 
and a half feet long, three to four inches broad, lanceolate, three- 
pinnate ; pinnae widened to the base ; segments toothed. 
53. A. aspidioides. Frond ovate-deltoid, two to four feet long, 
eight to fourteen inches broad, three-pinnate, with toothed 
segments. 
51. Athyrium filix-femina (Linn.) Roth. 
Plate 40. Nat. size, b Fertile pinnule. 
Crown erect, abundantly paleaceous. Frond herbaceous, 
glabrous, one and a half to two feet long, six to eight inches 
broad at the middle, rather less below, and with an almost 
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