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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
Athyrium scandicinmn (Willd.). Pr. Tent. 98, 1836 ; C. Chr. Ind. 146. 
Asplenium aspidioides. Schl. Adum. 24, tab. 13; Kunze, Linnaea , 
18, 1 18; Pappe and Rawson, 21 ; Kuhn, Fit. Afr. 97 ; Hk. and Bkr r 
Syn. Fit. 228 ; Wood, Natal Ferns , 24 ; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr., 
1st ed., 162. 
Athyrium laxum. Pappe and Rawson, 16; Moore’s Index , 186;. 
Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 105. 
Aspidium scandicinum. Willd. Sp. 5, 285. 1810. 
African Islands, South Africa, and Hawaii. 
East. — Fuller’s Kloof, near West Hills, Grahamstown (Holland). 
Natal. — In wet shady places from Inanda inland (Wood); Umpu- 
mulo, Karkloof, Kranzkop, Noodsberg, Richmond, Maritzburg 
(Buchanan) ; Fort Nottingham (McKen) ; Buccleuch (W. Leighton) ; 
Sweetwaters (T. R. Sim). 
Basutoland. — (Sir H. Barkly). 
Transvaal.- — Haenertsberg (Eastwood); Houtboschberg (W. Nelson, 
480). Woodbush, Nov. 1913 (Mrs R. Pott, 4664). 
Rhodesia. — Umtali (Darling, Holland). 
Genus 19. Asplenium Linn. 
Sori linear or oblong, placed obliquely between the mid- 
rib and the margin, and covered by an indusium. Sori 
sometimes through absence of lamina apparently marginal. 
This genus includes with us all ferns (except Blechnum and 
Actiniopteris) which have longish sori, not marginal, but 
covered by an indusium. It is a very large and widely 
distributed genus, containing several more or less natural 
sub-genera. All our species have free veins, but a few foreign 
species have them anastomosing. Most of the species are 
very beautiful, and many of them favourites in cultivation, 
and easily grown. Some of the species vary excessively in 
cutting, and some of them even range into different sub- 
genera. 
Synopsis of the species : 
§ Sori linear or oblong, straight, not marginal ( Eu-asplenium Bkr). 
+ Frond sharply pinnate, lanceolate, not more than two inches broad. 
54. A. Kraussii. Frond four to six inches long, one-half to three- 
quarter inch broad, not proliferous, but the plant bearing separate 
leafless, proliferous fronds. Pinnae sessile, sharply toothed. Rachis 
green, fragile. 
