DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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East. — Sent from Graaffreinet by Mr Bolus under the name of A. 
Macleayi (Lady Barkly). 
Kaff. — Toise River and Thomas Mountain, rare (T. R. Sim); and in 
the Transkei at Main (Mrs Young); Engcoba (Flanagan, 2722). 
Natal. — Near Byrne (Wood); Bosjesman’s Rand (Dr F. Krauss) ; 
Mooi River, Nottingham, Riet Vlei (Buchanan) ; Highlands (R. 
Schlechter, 5000 ft, 6846). 
Transvaal. — (Lady Barkly); Pilgrim’s Rest (L. Collins, 1 9 1 1 ). 
55. Asplenium Sandersoni Hk. 
Plate 43. Fig. 1. Nat. size. 
Crown procumbent, paleaceous. Fronds one-half to three- 
quarter inch broad, three to six inches long, shortly stalked, 
linear lanceolate, simply pinnate; pinnae terminating abruptly 
both above and below, with no terminal pinna, but the rachis 
often prolonged and proliferous. Rachis fragile, green, glabrous; 
pinnae one-sidedly cuneate, with a short, winged stalk, from 
which the lower edge curves into the terminal lobe, or some- 
times there is one lobe on the lower side; while on the upper 
side there are two or three ; the inner edge nearly parallel 
with the rachis at about one line distant. One vein goes into 
each of the blunt, crenate lobes, the lower veins bearing one 
short sorus each. 
Baker ( Annals of Botany , Aug. 1891) now states that A. 
brachypteron and A. Dregeanum Kze are dareoid forms of 
this species ; but so far as I have seen they constitute one 
widely separate species, and Christensen treats them so. 
A. Sandersoni. Hk. Sp. Fit. 3, p. 147, pi. 179, i860; Kuhn, Fit. Afr. 
1 16; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fit. 197; Wood, Natal Ferns , 20; Sim, 
Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 132 ; C. Chr. Ind. 130. 
A. dentatum. P. and R. (See under A. Kraussii.) 
Africa and African Islands. Mrs Kitton’s Kaffrarian 
specimens, so named, belong to A. Kraussii Moore. 
Natal. — Field’s Hill (McKen); Umpumulo, Killiecrankie (Buchanan) ; 
Noodsberg and Inanda (Wood); Richmond (Sanderson); Zwaartkop 
(T. R. Sim). 
Transvaal.— Houtbosch, 6800 ft (Schlechter, 4760) ; Houtboschberg 
(W. Nelson, 489) ; Haenertsberg (Mrs Pott, 4659). 
Rhodesia. — Umtali (Mrs Bennett). 
Portuguese East Africa. — Moramballa Mts (Waller). 
